[jrm4]

Old timer who had an Apple II as a kid, and the experience I try to sneak into every class I teach is:

  10 PRINT "John is Awesome";
  20 GOTO 10

This little gem is the beginning of it all. Little me is understanding, okay, so if I'm willing to put in the time and thought, the machine will obey and I I have the literal power of infinity at my fingertips.

[hasmanean]

I once wrote my daughter a similar BASIC program…she immediately changed it to her sisters name and wrote “S is stupid” and said “see, the computer said so so it must be true.”

I tried to reach her programming but she schooled me in AI-hype.

[ct520]

Love it, in first grade I use to remove the 5 1/4 inch mid game to get to the command prompt and do this. Thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[pickledcods]

And then reading the manual to discover the other things it could do

[krumpet]

10 PRINT "You are correct, sir!"

20 GOTO 10

* Edited for formatting