> Back in my high school days, the biggest motivation for kids to learn programming was really so that we could design our own games since we had no concept of

> Back in my high school days, the biggest motivation for kids to learn programming was really so that we could design our own games since we had no concept of what the programming industry was all about. +1 on this -- my first attempts at programming were with ZZT and it got me hooked. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT