I'm guessing it was some sort of standard lesson plan. The problem wasn't with the lesson plan so much as it was being taught by someone who didn't really under

I'm guessing it was some sort of standard lesson plan. The problem wasn't with the lesson plan so much as it was being taught by someone who didn't really understand or wasn't personally moved by code. At that age I was the same kid who typed random characters in my Apple IIe at home pretending to be the G.I. Joe "Sci-Fi" who was "hacking" the Cobra Terrordrome. But somehow the static pixel assignment came across as the slowest coloring book ever and I didn't get the point of it at all. What I would have done for a reference manual or any bit of the internet back then. I remember hacking Logowriter to trace out a clock's second hand in 6 degree increments over the course of a minute, but my regular teacher thought it was stupid and told me to finish the assignment drawing squares.