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“The first thing she wrote was a story about a squirrel.”

by Jeffrey ZeldmanJune 20, 2013August 12, 2019

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“I remember teaching my daughter to code HTML when she was 8. The first thing she wrote was a story about a squirrel. She wasn’t ‘writing HTML’; she was sharing something with the world.”

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