I agree 100% with the author -- logo as a child is what started me on programming. My first programming experience was in ~1981 or so when my elementary school

I agree 100% with the author -- logo as a child is what started me on programming. My first programming experience was in ~1981 or so when my elementary school teacher brought an Apple II into our classroom. She was getting her MS in education, and it was on-loan from her college. It was loaded with Apple Logo, and you had to pry me away from it with a crowbar. That was one of the first times I stayed after school willingly. I hounded my parents mercilessly until they finally bought an Apple II clone. I eventually learned BASIC, and learned debugging and "hacking" by fixing the games that I typed in (incorrectly) from magazines and modifying them to do different things.