Eero Ahonen wrote:

> We have this club, with which we keep max. week-long camps for
> youngsters (usually 'bout 10-16 years old) to learn IT-skills. At first
> night we ask them what they want to learn (programming, raytracing,
> networking, hardware, Linux etc...). Some years ago for couple of
> summers there was always 2-3 new kids, who had no idea of programming
> and they answered like "I want to learn how to code something like Doom"
> (Doom being an actual part of these answer - and surely the most popular!).

Oh, that's cute. (How many million LoC is Doom? Sure, it does software 
rendering, but even so...) ;-)

My response is typically of the form "learning how to program a computer 
is like learning to speak French. It takes more than 5 minutes..."

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