I likely wouldn't be a developer today if not for elementary school. I thought Logo was dumb and could never get into it, but one day after school in grade 6 I

I likely wouldn't be a developer today if not for elementary school. I thought Logo was dumb and could never get into it, but one day after school in grade 6 I saw my friend had used Logo to open a command prompt on a school computer. He had gone into QBASIC and made a rocket ship fly using just print commands. I was hooked instantly. I spent most of my non-school waking hours for the next few months coding in BASIC, entering programs from books I found buried in the library, and pouring through the help system to learn how to do new things. Programming then really taught me to dig deep and figure things out on my own using resources available to me, and gave me a source of pride and confidence that I didn't get from other avenues. Eventually earning a great sense of accomplishment as I'd teach friends how to use various game engines that I'd develop at home. Without that first experience in elementary school -- ultimately enabled through a feature of Logo -- I'd never have begun that journey.