We spent two late evening doing triad programming (like pair programming but with three people) with
(e:terry) on the big screen. It was fun watching him learn. I think he could be a great programmer. The program converted a file from one accounting system export to another accounting system input format.
The first night we had we had him programming in the terminal. One evening two we switched to a text editor. I think text editor was a better approach but it's neat to let him so how it worked at the most basic level.
I witnessed this dissection :(