Same here, somewhen back in primary school my father installed logo for me to play around with instead of paint. When I asked him how it works, he told me in fatherly affection:"RTFM". He later repeated the stunt by handing me a copy of K&R when I asked him whether he could teach me programming.
Now on the one hand, it taught me to RTFM, but on the other, i got stuck on something in either language and ended up quitting (drawing chairs in logo, bit shifts in C since I didn't know how binary really worked or what an exponent was). It makes me wonder what the better parenting approach is, letting your children learn to figure things out on their own, or helping them across whatever bumps they encounter, or some mix between the two.
Now on the one hand, it taught me to RTFM, but on the other, i got stuck on something in either language and ended up quitting (drawing chairs in logo, bit shifts in C since I didn't know how binary really worked or what an exponent was). It makes me wonder what the better parenting approach is, letting your children learn to figure things out on their own, or helping them across whatever bumps they encounter, or some mix between the two.