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My brother took a Python class his Senior year of high school

The best I got out of high school back in the early 90's was an "Intro to Computer Programming" using Turing[1], of all things on a Macintosh Classic. Of course we didn't have the internet either back then, but I digress.

You guys are so lucky to be growing up post internet. :)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(programming_language)




He took it at a college as part of a program where kids got to take a few college courses while still in high school. We didn't have any computer science while I was in high school, and my family didn't own a computer until halfway through my sophomore year, so a big chunk of my high school programming was BASIC and assembly on TI calculators.


When I was in high school, the local college didn't have any programming classes at all. The closest was how to use Excel.

I have to agree that you guys are lucky to be growing up post-internet.

(For fun, I just checked and they now teach C++, VB, Java, PHP and SQL.)




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