Comment Re:Computer science... (Score 1) 564
I had to take Computer Applications last year as I had never taken any "tech" classes yet, and the teacher was surprised that I could type properly. The class was really easy, and once I got my work done in the first 15-20min of the 80 min class, I could go and read tech news and reviews and actually learn about things. Sadly, over 50% of the people in the class got D's or F's and have to take it again this year. It was a really boring class and the books for copy were from 1995. The teacher nearly flipped an the last day of school when I was the one person in the class who'd heard of an alternative keyboard layout such as dvorak's. It was kind of sad watching our teacher who was around 70 have to deal with asshole kids being dumbasses trying to get on facebook and youtube in class.
I have a class this year that I took for the hell of it that is labelled as a "networking" class, and all we've done so far is make some shitty flash animations from this company called ISL's flash based software using CS3. http://ingeniousstudentlabs.com/ Next semester, we get to make websites (woohoo!). I wanted to take a class that was only ever offered in the district at my school that was about hardware troubleshooting, but it was cut 2 years ago due to budget cuts, and they never removed it from the Course Guide.