When I was in elementary or junior high school, a teacher said if we typed a paper, we would get extra points on the paper. I told my mother who talked to her uncle, my great uncle, and we brought a typewriter from him. Actually, he gave me the typewriter with one condition: I had to learn to touch type.
He gave me the typewriter and a book teaching touch typing. I learned how to touch type.
Before that, I joined the Boy Scouts. One of the tasks we had to learn was how to tie a tie. I learned how to tie by reading the Boy Scout book the Den Mother had given us.
During my high school years, a cousin who worked at DuPont took me to his job. He was a computer programmer and he wanted to see the results of his batch job. He showed me, and another cousin, how to read punch cards and showed us the code printout and the stack of punch cards that made the program. In my junior year of high school, I learned FORTRAN as a part of a math class. There, I saw, again, punch cards. I laughed as the teacher told us about the punch cards and I was actually able to read them without seeing the text printed on them.
When I go to the work, I regularly wear a tie. I make a living designing software systems and writing code.
"Trivial"? Ordered steps?
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