Great article. I have used computers my whole life (my parents heard it was the future), but, only started programming in high school. None of the science tea

Great article. I have used computers my whole life (my parents heard it was the future), but, only started programming in high school. None of the science teachers knew how to program, so they gave it to the gym teacher. He said: "you guys figure it out ... and when you get stuff working, teach the others." It sounds bad, but, he was one of the best teachers I had in grade school. We just messed around for an hour 3 days a week. At the end we had to present a program. I still remember the output screen (it was graphical), but, not the code. Anyway, I did CS and have been a programmer for ~18 years. It was some form of BASIC, not sure if this was it. The screen looks familiar. The best part was that I was not forced to do it. I just tried it and liked it. Parents hear there is money in programming and try to make their kids do it. It can lead to an unhappy life. Parents, expose your kids to lots of things, let them pick.