All I can say is it went pretty well for me. Remember that this wasn't a full-on class; it was a "career day" where I had at most 5 minutes with any student, m

All I can say is it went pretty well for me. Remember that this wasn't a full-on class; it was a "career day" where I had at most 5 minutes with any student, most of whom had no experience with any kind of programming whatsoever. And my main goal was actually to get "normal", not crazy-interested-in-computers children to experience the cognitive dissonance of running `./grade.pl 10000` and seeing it print out "A". My favorite response was the girl who knitted her eyebrows for a few seconds and then exclaimed, "Oh, I see -- you tell it what to do and then it does it!" Yes, exactly. Whatever she ends up doing with her life, her attitude towards computers will different now.