I took computer science at school in 1989 because I hated my chemistry teacher in 1988. Never looked back. I really loved the author's call for attention to whe

I took computer science at school in 1989 because I hated my chemistry teacher in 1988. Never looked back. I really loved the author's call for attention to whether kids are "getting" the concepts being taught and adjust accordingly. My teacher (Hi Mr Steele if you are still kicking around!!) taught us the algorithms without coding, but instead used playing cards or underwater bubbles or whatever. We had our a-ha moments intellectually before we implemented them in code. As an aside, our school had just got macs and we spent most of the day playing digitised sound files from Monty Python. "YOU TIT!"