Re:re Thou shall not bore the young (Score 1)

I'm going to second the "teach some history" sentiment. My first computers class was taught in the traditional "teacher reading one chapter ahead of the students" way, and it nearly turned me off of programming right there. Luckily, the next teacher that I had had been programming for a long, long time, and so had first-hand experience with the "guts" of programming, and he tried to pass this perspective on to us. Maybe it's just me, but learning the ins and outs of the computer's hardware made programming seem so much more interesting; suddenly, I understood why we couldn't just store infinitely huge numbers in an int (after all, humans can, so why can't computers?)