[bcrosby95]

Or a calculator. Oh wait, I hard ban my 8 and 11 year old kids from using a calculator. I wonder why.

[CamperBob2]

That... is not a good idea.

Inexpensive calculators were relatively new when I was that age, and I learned so much just playing with them.

[LtWorf]

What exactly did you learn?

[CamperBob2]

Among other things, I learned that I was really, really into computing machinery.

[CamperBob2]

(I also learned that a lot of people on Hacker News have absolutely no business on a site called 'Hacker News.')

[LtWorf]

I did repeatedly hack my university though. But you are of course free to leave :)