Is Your Child a Potential Computer Programmer?

A computer programmer has to be a patient stickler for detail. If your child typically does thing like the following, computer programming may be a suitable career.

• Experiments to see which is better, washing clothes and socks right-side out or inside-out.
• Makes Jello using two cups of hot water.
• Puts Dymo labels on all the household computer connectors and cables.
• Can explain to you why some particular order of gargling, flossing and brushing is best.
• Uses some sort of keyboard mapping to optimise the position of keys on her keyboard.
• Has a fondness for putting things in Ziploc plastic bags that do not need protection.
• Prefers polyphonic music.
• Prefers toys with thousands of tiny pieces.
• His favourite Christmas present was a package of Post-It flags.
• Names her pets after ancient Greeks.
• Writes daily to software vendors, manufacturers, media, government, authors etc. telling them how what they do could be improved.

~ Roedy (1948-02-04 age:70)