"Ooh! I'd love to learn that!"

"Warning: I am not a teacher usually."

"But I'm a fast learner and tend to teach myself, I'm sure it'll work out."

"This should probably wait until we have an actual computer... But I can probably explain some concepts..."

Introduction to Variables and the concept of loops and if/then statements! All in vague sorts of terms as they walk, out of necessity, though he does sketch some stuff in his notebook.

Sadde eats it all up, and asks some questions but in general follows the logic very well.

Then he is ready to hear about the common user interface functions, and then later to try to write pseudo code for whatever random program he wants and the next time they visit Terry's house they can translate it into the arcane sigils required by C++ together.

Oh look, they've been walking for a while now.

So they have! Sadde's place is over there, a small apartment building that's clearly not the most expensive place to live.

Terry gives it a bit of a look, but doesn't comment aloud.

In they go, and in spite of small and probably cheap it's well-maintained and clean in a way that speaks of attention to detail and care for what one does. Maybe it's not as ridiculously cheap as it immediately appears.

He lives on the fourth floor, and has his keys. "Moooom, Terry's heeere!" he calls.

Like the rest of the building, the apartment is small but well taken care of. Laura's voice comes from a place that's presumably the kitchen: "Hi, Terry, hi, baby, are either of you hungry?"

"Not particularly, thanks for offering though! You should probably have a copy of my notes on the cards?"

"I'm fine!" he calls back. "And yeah that sounds like a good idea!"

So he leads Terry to his room where his school stuff is, including a mostly bare notebook and pens.

He has neat handwriting and re-writes only the most important parts in clear and easy-to-read bits. Even while simultaneously quizzing Sadde on their favorite books and movies. It's a skill.

Then Sadde will tell Terry about all of his favorite books and movies! He doesn't have many favorites, favorites, but he really likes musicals in general when it comes to movies, economics stuff when it comes to nonfiction books, and SF&F when it comes to fiction. Sadde will also ask Terry about his favorites!

Science fiction all the way. The 'harder' (more conforming to real science and physics) it is, the better. Movies, eh. Everyone likes a good action flick right? He reads a lot of random books in terms of nonfiction. Space and engineering and computer science are big themes there. He gets distracted by a rant about how computers are not magic and it all makes sense if you dig deep enough. Half-adders and cache misses and assembly programming are probably off topic, and are distracting him from copying the notes, though, so he shuts up about them.

Really? Even though Sadde is drinking the rant up?

...Yeah, this rant goes better with a whiteboard anyway and he's getting frustrated that he's not explaining it well enough.

"Do you happen to have a whiteboard at your place? And is a notebook not enough?"

"No and I guess it's enough - but I want to look up a bunch of stuff again now, I'm afraid I'll get it wrong."

"Oh, yeah, I don't have a computer you can use, sorry."

(He has a very old one and no internet access, but he might mmmmaaaybe be able to convince his mother to help with that. Possibly.)

"Yeah, figured as much, no worries. There are... Other things to do."

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"Oh? What kinds of things?" he asks, innocently.

"Like this." Peck-kiss, done as soon as it starts.

"Sorry, what? I blinked and missed it."

Okay, a slightly less brief peck.