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Re: Getting a 10 year old started in programming

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From: M Darrin Chaney
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 15:42
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In article <1992Aug12.175911.19270@softwords.bc.ca> rslade@cue.bc.ca (Rob Slade) writes:
>Sometime in the third week, in the space of two hours, my "stupid little 
>airhead" surged ahead of the entire class.  By the fourth week, she was
>correcting and improving the procedures of the rest of the class.  By the
>end of eight weeks she had thoroughly mastered procedures and modular
>programming, was dealing with recursion and list processing.  She had
>even discovered, on her own, the "Total Turtle Trip Theorem", which I
>had frankly considered to be impossible.  (I was very careful about *not*
>giving her any info on it.  She didn't know anything about "degrees", but
>she did discover that a closed figure required a total of 360 in "turns".
>Blew me away, the day she did a perfect pentagon ... on her very first 
>attempt.)

Okay, I'll bite.  What's the "Total Turtle Trip Theorem?"

	Darrin
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