The author is making an excuse for not including an intro chapter and tool in his book to get the reader to a place where they can start using the book. My six

The author is making an excuse for not including an intro chapter and tool in his book to get the reader to a place where they can start using the book. My sixth grader checked-out a Python game programming book from the school library. He was able to install all the tools necessary to follow along and learn from the book. Today you have Google, Youtube and every programming language available from scratch to assembler at your fingertips. There is no way it is "harder". Yea the C64 dropped you into basic. But this was my first experience on a Commodore 64: "Play A Game" -Syntax Error "Play a Game of Chess" -Syntax Error "Let's play Global Thermonuclear War" -Syntax Error