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For 'highschoolers'...my computer science class in high school was learning autocad :O(.
by zerooneinfinity 11y ago
For 'highschoolers'...my computer science class in high school was learning autocad :O(.
- cbd1984 11y agoMy HS CS class included learning about coaxial Ethernet cabling and dumb terminals (yes, actual amber screen Wyse terminals). I graduated high school in 2002.
- warfangle 11y agoMy HS CS class was mainly Turbo Pascal & Borland C++ on token-ring networked DOS computers. Graduated in '02.
- thescriptkiddie 11y agoAt least you had a programming class. The computers at my high school didn't even have a compiler.
- cbd1984 11y agoTell that to kids today, and they won't believe you.
- smoyer 11y agoExcept that so many of them have phones, phablets and tablets. Then they get to school and are handed a Chromebook. No compilers in sight! P.S. My computer science class was split between 12 "green screens" and 12 card punch machines. Yes I'm old ;)
- talideon 11y agoThere are, at least, things like Termux (https://termux.com/ https://termux.com/), on Android. Just for laughs, I've been doing actual work (using git, vim, and Go) in Termux on my Nexus 10. Only two things got in my way: screen size and the inability to have a browser and terminal on screen at once. What's particularly sweet about Termux is that it has an APT-based package manager. Given the right tools, even something as locked down as an Android tablet can be surprisingly effective development tool.
- conceit 11y agoWindows had an msdos assembler preinstalled, last time I checked, which was before vista. Now the 16bit support was removed, but edge comes with a javascript engine, right?
- talideon 11y agoI'm not sure I get what that has to do with the comment I made.
- conceit 11y agoWith asm I referred to the OP, the javascript engine bit could relate to the chrome developer tools a chromebook should sport or to sites like jsfiddle, codepen, the msp430 challenge at microcorruption.com, etc. etc. I tried to concur with you, basically.
- roel_v 11y agoHow many kids in high school know what a 'compiler' is?
- thescriptkiddie 11y agoTo clarify, I wasn't being all "get off my lawn". The computers at my high school ran Windows 2000.
- icpmacdo 11y agoVisual Basic for me, as well as Java on my own time.
- greenbay_ftw 11y agomine was excel + html. javascript was too advanced?