I have had no sleep for 48 hours and I have had 1 sandwich for food. Now this is very hard to pull off as normally your metabolism slows to compensate for the lack of food but with constant doses of caffeine you can pull it off and lose 20lbs in 3 weeks like I did during the last 3 weeks of classes.

I took a half year Intro to Computer Science class as a senior in high school. The class was actually paired with a half year of Principles of Engineering. The thing I loved about these classes it that they were very broad based. We did just about everything in a very basic form. I am a second year CS Major and I am still seeing stuff I learned in the class. We were able to get so much because we used Python but we started with C-- then moved to C then we learned python. Originally the course had used java but you need to know more to be able to have a good project at the end of the course. If I were to make a CS class for High School students I would do a similar thing as what I took. Concentrate on keeping things simple and make most of the point(like 50%) are for projects and labs. About 20% for small tests(only have 1 or 2), 10% for homework and the 20% for a final project. Our project was programming a poker game using a provided graphic library. We also got more than a week in class to work on it in groups of two. I would do something like this because it will give you enough time to do everything at a basic level but at the same time it will allow the students to get something at the end of the course that they can see and looks cool. We only had 1 test in the class and 1 quiz but each week we had a lab which we worked on mostly in class. My teacher would give a hand out the first class each week and would lecture off of it. After the lecture class we would then work on a small project that used what we learned. I don't know if this class would be good for the general person to take or if there would be a lot of support for it from the students but in my school(around 800 students) there was 1 CS class which had a about 5 people who actually wanted to take it and about 20 who were just filling a science requirement. The 20 students who took it and weren't interested in CS as much as I was did struggle and had a hard time but because of the Lab/Project based structure it allowed them to ask for help. I must say this, had the class been a full year of CS there wouldn't have been enough students to fill the class so I would make sure there would be some interest in the class before fully building the curriculum.

That hasn't stopped people in the past

When I was in high school we had a foreign language lab which was use occasionally for activities. When ever we went into the lab the teacher would sit there an monitor our screens and had the ability to listen into what we were saying. Because the listening part was built into the software I was forced to use I was unable to disable that but I did kill the winvnc process that they use to spy on the screen. Our school was horrible in their security practices as I was also able to look up the password that was assigned to every student in the Junior and Senior class the put the password in the comment of the user. Plus I was able to gain access to the main server's C:\ drive using the "dummy computers" the terminal like computer connections and a link in my Documents folder to the C:\ that I made on one of the few real computers in the building.