I created my first program when I was in elementary school. My Dyslexia and word-find puzzles didn't play well together. It must have been 3rd or 4th grade, we would get some sort of reward for completing the puzzle quickly. I figured out I could hunt for a word one at a time by picking the first letter from a single word. Scanning line by line for that letter, then once found, I would scan all its neighbor's for the next letter in the word, making it impossible to not find the word by the end of a complete scan. To me, this technique was a breakthrough and I finally felt I had a chance to finish the puzzle on time, rather than stare blankly at the letters for a length of time not finding anything... I gleefully explained my process to my teacher, who looked at me like I was an idiot, and dismissed my groundbreaking revelation. Dismissively proclaiming, 'oh that will take forever to finish'... I didn't know what an algorithm was, I didn't know what a progr