Facebook Engineer Turns 5-Year-Olds Into HackersS  Carlos Bueno
wants your 5-year-old to think like a programmer.  By day, Bueno
is a Facebook engineer. He helps hone software on the servers
underpinning the world's largest social network. But he
moonlights as a children's author. His first book is called
Lauren Ipsum, and it's a fairy tale that seeks to introduce
children - as young as five or as old as 12 - to the concepts of
computer science.  But this isn't done with code. It's done with
metaphors. In one scene, the titular character, Laurie Ipsum,
teaches a mechanical turtle to draw a perfect circle using
simple instructions in the form of a poem. "I wanted to write a
book not on how to program, but how to think like a programmer,"
Bueno tells Wired.  The book was illustrated by his wife,
Ytaelena Lopez, and the two self-published after raising funds
on Kickstarter. Bueno - who "tested" the book on his nephews as
he wrote it - says that programming should be a part of
everyone's education. "The first ste