"The thing that bothers me most about the iPad is this: if I had an iPad rather than a real computer as a kid, I’d never be a programmer today."<p>You could say the same about most PC's, actually. Time was, when you got a computer it had a few programs and some sort of interpreter or compiler to build your own program. Kids back then who got computers became programmers. Kids today get computers and go on the internet, and there's enough there to distract you that you don't get bored enough to install a compiler or something.<p>Somehow, kids still get into programming anyway.