I have been pondering this question lately as we are stuck inside on these cold winter nights. I taught my son how to tie his shoelaces the other night. That seemed pretty major. He is already reading like a madman, so I can't do much there. He is better than me at video games now. And, he plays with LEGOs like a champ.
Then, it dawned on me that I could help him learn how to program. So, we set about doing his first program. Since he is still very young, I figured I would show him the basics. But, we didn't program in BASIC. And, we did not do a command line "Hello World" application. I know! How do you not do "Hello World"?
I broke out the Visual Studio 2008. And we coded in C#. We created a Spiderman Calculator which only did addition. It did a postback. No javascript. I had him fill in the text for the labels and button. He picked out the image. And I wrote the code for the calculator. It was a nice, simple out of the box application which anyone could do. But do they?
There was a moment in which I was trying to convey to him the deep importance of what he was witnessing.
One day, son, you could be hacking into Target...
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