> You never followed directions until you learned how to program? Of course I did (sometimes reluctantly). Before I learned programming, I couldn't 'write' an

> You never followed directions until you learned how to program? Of course I did (sometimes reluctantly). Before I learned programming, I couldn't 'write' an algorithm in a file and get a computer to follow those directions instead. > I learned addition, multiplication and division algorithms before I even got a computer. I know, subtraction is so damn hard to get right isn't it.