>Computer teachers (at the HS level) will tell you this too. I over heard a student ask her something about butllets. "Hmm, I dunno. Lets ask the Paper clip thingy."
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Things have changed since I was in high school. MegaMeyer (aka Dr. Meg Meyer, who got stuck with me for my first formal computer course when I was in high school) did a remarkable job of keeping a pretty bright class completely spellbound, teaching us about the guts of the PDP-8i and basic algorithms. We started day 1 with Macro8 assembly language...and learning to toggle in the paper tape loader on the front panel switches.