@jjg Could be. I think there is a programming system called Scratch which is maybe ok for teaching but the demos I saw weren't all that impressive. Apart from that I don't know of any current programming system which is designed to be easy for an average user. BASIC probably still exists, but the Visual Basic I was using in the late 1990s was much more complex than anything from the 1980s microcomputers and primarily aimed at business professionals.