Comment Re:Oh really? (Score 1) 453
I was lucky enough to have computer science classes taught in my highschool--incidentally that was at a small ghetto public school in Louisiana.
I really enjoyed the class and had an excellent teacher. I wouldn't have minded doing that as a career except I saw what kinds of other people were in the class with me and realized I would not want to work with those types my whole life. I also didn't want to work in a cubicle.
Had there been "cool" nerds in the class things would have been completely different. I never considered myself one of the super-cool kids, but I am fairly certain I was the only one in that class that had a girlfriend.
I also didn't want to end up working in a cube my whole life either--I discovered that while doing an engineering internship. And for the record, engineers are nerdy, but still much less nerdy that programmers. It's not hard to find cool engineers.