I remember when Basic was 'all the rage' for teaching kids to 'compute'  but machine code and the ability to use that for programming trumped it. Octal turned into hexadecimal code and then 64, 128, 256 bit coding and compiler languages that made all the 'number entering' easier.  

Anybody who is interested in coding will go to any length to learn it. Everybody? That's like teaching them French - Grade one "Je suis, tu es, il est etc'   to grade 8 - 'Je suis, tu es, il est,  etc'  : or to 'write like an author':  'think  like a mathematician'; 'play like a pro'.  

All the while becoming slower, and dumber, at plain-old commonsense living - like how to add or subtract,  understand a half of something being the same as 2 fourths or 5 tenths; use a washing machine, cook a meal;  do the dishes; make a bed  - or use a computer program to actually do something..