> Instead, when I give kids a great big block of javascript code that does something fun and animated, those kids will go wild with it. This is because changes

> Instead, when I give kids a great big block of javascript code that does something fun and animated, those kids will go wild with it. This is because changes to different variables can have big effects. I remember being a kid and typing in Mandelbrot code from a BASIC computer magazine. Even though I didn't understand the code, I had endless amounts of fun with stuff like that for exactly this reason. It's what sparked my imagination and interest in programming.