Comment Depressing (Score -1) 632
Sophmore year was basically "introduction to computers" giving the basic history from Babbage to the PC, covering apple, and the start of Microsoft buying DOS. After that the only thing we were taught was Lotus 1-2-3 on Windows 3.1. The next year the school upgraded and we were running windows 98 with whatever MS Office suite was available at the time. This was the depressing part. These were things I was fortunate enough to learn before I went to high school. Being the teacher's assistant is definitely not much fun.
Next was drafting with Autocad, which was really just the basics on CAD and mostly focused on the basics of paper and pencil drafting.
Computer Science was available my Junior and Senior year. The first teacher we had didn't actually keep a grade book and when asked to write an essay on what I had learned in his class for the final project I wrote a large goose egg, handed it in 5 minutes after class started and still made a 90 for the year...
Senior year was taught by the same teacher who was teaching intro to computers and she was way out of her depth. At this time I had been scripting in mIRC for the last three years and had a pretty good grasp on variables, functions, writing modularly, and once again was set in the role of teacher's assistant... When I started CS2 I realized taking time to learn Pascal in CS1 did actually teach me a lot of the fundamentals of CS. I may not have cared much for the first teacher because of his teaching method, but the ideas sunk in.
I graduated in 99.
Sadly, most of the people my age don't seem to know how to do much more than write a document or the very basics of spreadsheets. Then again, I also live in a tiny town of 80,000.
Next was drafting with Autocad, which was really just the basics on CAD and mostly focused on the basics of paper and pencil drafting.
Computer Science was available my Junior and Senior year. The first teacher we had didn't actually keep a grade book and when asked to write an essay on what I had learned in his class for the final project I wrote a large goose egg, handed it in 5 minutes after class started and still made a 90 for the year...
Senior year was taught by the same teacher who was teaching intro to computers and she was way out of her depth. At this time I had been scripting in mIRC for the last three years and had a pretty good grasp on variables, functions, writing modularly, and once again was set in the role of teacher's assistant... When I started CS2 I realized taking time to learn Pascal in CS1 did actually teach me a lot of the fundamentals of CS. I may not have cared much for the first teacher because of his teaching method, but the ideas sunk in.
I graduated in 99.
Sadly, most of the people my age don't seem to know how to do much more than write a document or the very basics of spreadsheets. Then again, I also live in a tiny town of 80,000.