yeah, goal oriented teaching is where it's at IMO. I still remember C64 and I typed in (I still remember it): POKE 53280,0 : POKE 53281,0 and voila, black 13

yeah, goal oriented teaching is where it's at IMO. I still remember C64 and I typed in (I still remember it): POKE 53280,0 : POKE 53281,0 and voila, black 1337 haxor screen like "big" computers had! Then curiosity kicked in and I learned what POKE was and what it does and what are those addresses etc. Also one vital thing about my specific path is that I asked for a computer (my first one was ZX-80) when I read about some computer game (I think it was called valhalla or something) where there was this whole world you could explore and my first reaction was not "cool I'd like to explore it" but was more like "cool I can make my own world with this computer thing"!