One thing that I struggle to explain to 5th graders about programing is that they need to *click* on the console window before they try to type text to be processed by their program.
They are also mystified by pressing "enter" to submit the text to the program.
Maybe I should make them a little text adventure so they understand how a terminal/text interface works?
I mean... it's not surprising they've never encountered one before.
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