When I attended middle school there was a mandatory programming class. We all got to program in BASIC on some Apple computers. That had a pretty lasting influ

When I attended middle school there was a mandatory programming class. We all got to program in BASIC on some Apple computers. That had a pretty lasting influence on me, and may very well be responsible for my career path. I also just recently finished teaching an after school program on using Scheme to program a (simple) computer game at a middle school. While it was only a 10 week program that met once a week, I think we had a fair degree of success.