Sure, California has its plesant climate for most of the year, but it is also one of the most expensive states to operate a business and to live in.

Not to appear to be thinking of myself (being a St. Louisian who is currently unemployed), but it is far cheaper to operate in the Midwest. I could understand operating on a coastal area if there was something to export, but a river can do just as well, just be sure to get out of its way when it starts to flood if you don't build in a proper place. (Tip: Building on bluffs is way better than building in a floodplain. I'm talking to you, New Town St. Charles!)

But the TCO in St. Louis is far less than the TCO in San Jose, San Francisco, or Los Angeles.

Best of all, we don't catch fire every few days!
The biggest concern of any Tech company on the West Coast that frightens the rest of the company is the concern that some of the big technology companies on the West Coast may be destroyed in a firestorm. I feared for my webhosting service provider's welfare this summer after the great fires that roared through Southern California. Though it did not suffer the damage of fire, the fact that smoke had creeped into their office building was reason enough to stay awake at night.

Long before we had the Internet, I was introduced to LOGO and BASIC on the Apple II. (This was like earily 1990s. The schools in the Midwest weren't up to speed with the folks in the big cities with their PowerPCs, Quadras, and earily i386 computers).

It would probably be a wise decision to teach CS in school, but not expose children to the Internet. I mean ABSOLUTELY NO Internet.

Before we teach children about looking up research online, have them search the encyclopedias and books. Let them learn mental math before we give them a calculator. I wish I had known about the vedic maths when I was younger; Multiplication is a breeze.

My recommendation would be either to teach Assembly Language or Python.

To think, all those years some of us though of Microsoft as being an evil corporation and then we learn about Diskeeper which IS evil and manditorily requires their employees to join the CULT of $cientology.

I forsee quite a bit of Rickrolling in their future.