Supriya's First Programming Lesson

Supriya starts her first Robotics class in two weeks. It's only 6 or 8 sessions, but she is excited about it (as am I). I want her to be prepared for the class, so I taught her the basics of programming today. I drew a figure on the paper standing at a point on a grid. I told her that a computer is very fast and very dumb, so she has to be very precise in her instructions. It was a simple exercise to get the robot from point A to point B, which she did without any hesitation:

1. Turn 180 degrees clockwise.
2. Take 2 steps.
3. Turn 90 degrees counterclockwise.
4. Take 3 steps.

It took all of 5 minutes for the "lesson". The rest of programming, as they say, is just details...