Thanks UB, the main thrust of my post was to see what could be done and how far one could go down this path.

As for the comments about learning programming, it is not as simple as that.

I am a fiction writer with an imagination that never stops. I can sit down, every day, and let my fingers fly over the keyboard as they churn out over 6,000 words per day.
My youngest son is a programmer. He can sit there and churn out thousands of lines of code without every looking at the keyboard!

But he has no imagination- he could never do what I do.
And I could never do what he does as my brain will never understanding "looping".
:-)