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I did my first programming with pencil and paper, and I'm still engaged 30+ years later

• vvanders 11y ago
  We're talking about high school here though. Seems to me it would be like running a chemistry class without doing any lab work.
  • rondsquare 11y ago
    Not trying to be argumentative or anything, but that's how chemistry is taught in 3rd world countries. Labs are a luxury :)
    • lfowles 11y ago
      And rural America :)
    • vvanders 11y ago
      Eh fair, although RPi Zeros are pretty cheap these days :).
  • blt 11y ago
    I agree. One of the most magic moments when you start programming is when you write your first program that does a truly significant amount of work. You run it, you're still kind of on human time scale and think it's going to take a few seconds, but it finishes instantly. That was the moment that really hooked me into programming.