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  Pito Salas posted to Twitter an article:

  Sep 19, 2010
  

  Video Games Win a Beachhead in the Classroom

  “Reminds me of o Ntiedo Etuk's story: Video Games Win a Beachhead in the Classroom - http://nyti.ms/9G4jNp”

I have worked through the article.
I think this is just the bait the author saw.
There is never enough.
The kids will want to do things the designers never thought of.
to do them they will have to enter into the programmer's world. It starts with parsing command syntax from the manual. or perhaps with a trip to the how tos.
suddenly one is in the jungle of shells and program logic nested do loops and iterated exits. Spelling is critical. logical rigger must be maintained. Ambiguity jams the system. The surface is fun the machine will deal with the reality of ones and zeroes. if things do not converge the program hangs in an infinite loop. bug hunting will fill the days until the command language is deeply learned. In that process the technique of rapid and effective learning is instilled

These are places I have chosen not to revisit. I know I need to go there. I may yet do so. The struggle to communicate in plain language has taken my attention.

I must sleep. Melanoma must wait.