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> Our creative writing assignment was instructions for making a peanut butter & jelly sandwich. Then our teacher followed our instructions literally.

Did something very similar at an IBM day camp where we did the same thing :) I was 12 when I attended. I distinctly remember the epiphany I had after the sandwich lesson.

On one of the other days we did Lego MindStorm stuff. I was randomly assigned to the "software" team. They gave us a little workbook/journal with questions for us to reflect on the daily activities. One of the questions for that day was what we liked best. I wrote something very similar to "programming because that's what I want to do when I grow up" (I had decided that then and there). I am a software developer now and that workbook is one of my prized possessions.