Absofrickinlutely! I started doing Basic on a VIC-20 because I wanted the game to have more lives. I've been in tech all my life and never really advanced much beyond that. Some ladder logic, some special proprietary coding, but eventually someone advanced the interfaces to graphics as fast as I updated hardware. I'm learning python now at 63 because I want to do something if I can't use a welder or a machine tool. I think one of the worst approaches to teaching code is to start with useless stuff like web design. The best is the Lego robots and other hardware approaches (my daughter was on a submersible rover team). Programming (initially) is dumb if it doesn't connect to live movement. It's boring rote attention to detail. I have about 25 books on programming and almost every one skips I/O stuff or buries it, leaving hardware connections to vendor equipment. Commodore used to put the hardware right up front or easily indexed in manuals.