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You can eat pre-prepared food that might be cheap, but who knows what it is about   Or you can learn to make your own meals from scratch that might even be more nutritious  and more interesting! 

 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxDw-t3XWd0 ) How would you like to create programs without learning some fancy computer language per se. You could create games, animations, educational projects and much much more. MIT has created software called Scratch to do just that. In fact, educational institutions such as Harvard have used  it part of the curriculum for both computer and non-computer science majors to aid them in learning about computers. Here is a quick intro into Scratch. As you can see everything is drag and drop. No need to learn a epic set of commands to do even the most simplest things. Various video sites have a plethora of movies to watch to learn more about Scratch. You might need to learn some basic logic, but that is picked up easily enough.  You can see it is more user friendly that the traditional programing environment. Some traditional programmers use even a more simplistic environment. Even schools such as Harvard have integrated Scratch programmi...