If the girl had actually been murdered, I should hope not. Last time I checked, most graphic murder films were fake, so when my son sees someone get killed one way another in a flick (even on primetime or daytime TV) I can at least tell him, "it's not real" and point to six other movies where the same actor/actress is still running around. Seems like an underage girl having sex (raped???) with an older man is potentially evidence of a real crime (sex with a minor is a felony, last time I checked), unless it too was faked. Do people watch fake porn?

Our AP CS class back in the 80's had nothing but 3 commodore pets and one MicroVax running some flavor of Unix (thank god!) tied to 12 VT-100s. We were living high on the hog.

We spent the first 6 months learning first to hand assemble code for the Pets and program it using their built in screen based memory editor. We had to write simple multipliers/dividers, etc. It required learning about memory, registers, and basic ALU structures.

Only after this point were we "graduated" to the MicroVax and were given the choice of working with C or Pascal. I'll tell you what: no-one complained about having to learn vi(1), and everyone appreciated the power of a good compiler and why higher order languages were wonderful inventions.

To this day, that course was by far the most valuable class regarding computer programming I've ever taken. It really has provided me with a great deal of appreciation of what's already been done for me in terms of tools.

I happen to work on embedded systems, with C++ when I can, C when I need to and assembly when nothing else will do. I've met a lot of college grads that just cannot work in the embedded world with nothing but Java courses from their college background. There's a lot of software out there running on OS's (or not) that don't provide run-times with built in garbage collection, etc.... I'm not sure that's such a bad thing...