Dad bright home a 110bps acoustic-coupled printing terminal, dialed into the Honeywell mainframe, and had me type in a 3-line BASIC program which printed a sine

Dad bright home a 110bps acoustic-coupled printing terminal, dialed into the Honeywell mainframe, and had me type in a 3-line BASIC program which printed a sine wave. I was 10, and I was hooked. Soon after, he handed me a book that taught assembler programming by directing the read to hand execute instructions in the corner of each page, flipping pages to find the next. A couple dialup terminals later, we assembled a ZX-80 kit. 1KB RAM. Built a sound card from scratch for it. Long story short, 20+ years as a developer and teach programming part time. That today's students start with high level 3D GUIs and gigabit networking makes it hard to drag them back to the binary basics and build from there.