Fandom High School

Flynn sat at his desk, staring up at the ceiling.
He really needed to get out more.

The class shuffled in, and he looked down towards them.

"Today, kids... You're going to stand up in front of the class and tell us what you liked and disliked about whatever it was
you played with last week. Then briefly tell us what you would do to improve it."

He surveyed the class.

"Who wants to go first?"

"Last week, some of you learned how to think outside the box, as it were." He glanced around the room.

"Only one pair actually figured out and correctly identified what was in the box."

"This week, we're going to focus on abstract thinking."

Flynn pulled up a screen, showing various bits and bobs of software running various tasks.

"Computers use software to think and calculate, much like we do."

"So your assignment for the week is to design a program that does something.
What that something is, is up to you."

He waited for the sighs to come, as he knew this would be misunderstood.

"Now, you don't have to program it. Programming and designing are two different things."
He stood up. "I want you to design a program to do whatever you want."
"Then, break it down into sections, showing how each bit of the program would actually do it."

"For example. I want to create a program that calculates taxes. So I'd need a page that has boxes to fill information in,
then a part to run the calculations that are needed from each box, and so on..."

"Break down each individual part of the software, design the interface, and tell me what each bit does."

"It does sound complicated, but you'd be surprised how easy it can be."

And with that, he sat down at his desk, and stared into his monitor.

Flynn sat with his feet up on the desk, waiting for everyone to saunter in to the computer lab.

Satisfied that everyone had settled in, he began.

( Thus begins the program... )