Tortuga

When Andrés, my oldest son, was 9, we were watching a video about Logo, the programming language. He got especially excited with Turtle Graphics, where you have a "pen" on screen that you can draw with using commands to move it. That night I started a project using p5.js and my limited programming skills to do just that, drawing with commands, replacing my missing knowledge with unnecessary overcomplication and spaghetti code. But hey! It worked! We called it Tortuga, honoring the Logo concept of Turtle Graphics. Andrés loved it. He spent months coming back to it, and we added some features during that time: loops, an additional set of color "inks", and guidelines for the direction of the turtle. Cut to 7 years later, I'm watching a Daniel Shiffman video on fractals at night, when my youngest kid, Alan, sits by my side. He watches for a while and starts commenting and asking questions. He's fascinated by the concept of using code to draw things. You already know what happened next: I…