In fact, the basic process of doing the same thing twice, noticing you are repeating yourself, and then drying out the code is a pretty good way to introduce concepts like functions, classes, etc.

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I like it! I read the first couple and absolutely loved the first one--I point out the exact same thing when talking about programming to school kids. I think however that there is too big of a jump ...