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by edub 1366 days ago
In the early 80's on a TRS-80 Model III, I was in whatever grade you learn to alphabetize words, and I wrote a Basic program to handle the alphabetization. I input the 20 or so words, it output them in order, and then I transcribed that to my homework assignment. My mom said it was cheating and I couldn't use it, and my dad said that if I could write a program to do it then I illustrated that I could alphabetize word lists and it wasn't cheating.

I have a suspicion that I probably found the code in one of my dads computer magazines, so it probably was cheating since I doubt I actually wrote the program from scratch. Maybe partial credit for being resourceful. :)