Did anyone get less computer lessons when the went to high school?

I am going to high school soon and i only get about 8 computer lessons. Did this happen to anyone else :cry:

we had 2 2400 baud terminals, and one 300 baud teletype that we were allowed to use to dial into a HP minicomputer to learn Basic. 3 people per day got to use the machines, and half of your time was spent printing out your work to check it untill the next time you got to use the machine. We probably only had 8 days per semester to use the machine, but I spent hours per day before and after school. Of course, after hours, everyone wanted to get on the machines, as the game account was turned on. We lived in the computer room. You have to do whatever you can to get computer time.

Now its unbelievable that almost every kid in school has there own computer at home. I would have locked myself in my room until I had learned everything there was to learn about the machine.

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Originally Posted by Tom_Sample_UK

I am going to high school soon and i only get about 8 computer lessons. Did this happen to anyone else :cry:

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8 :eek:

I got zero in high school not a single one :-p

Now i'm in college though i get 4 and 1/2 hours a week :)

I never had computer classes in my school

Our department of education has made it mandatory for all students in high school to have basic computer knowledge, how many periods or sessions that implies i got no idea, although they won't give us any more computer rooms to cope with the increased load, go figure.

In every step of the way in your school life you should have computer lessons because computers are now and the future and are great things. Take french lessons for example (or any other language lesson) most people probaly wont need to know that so it would be better to replace them with computer lessons.

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Originally Posted by Tom_Sample_UK

In every step of the way in your school life you should have computer lessons because computers are now and the future and are great things. Take french lessons for example (or any other language lesson) most people probaly wont need to know that so it would be better to replace them with computer lessons.

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no lessons here either:D
bleh if you grow up with computers, who would need lessons? :D

What did you do instead of computer lessons - when i get ti high school i have my computer lessons and P.S.E lessons together.

mostly sex ed

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Originally Posted by Tom_Sample_UK

In every step of the way in your school life you should have computer lessons because computers are now and the future and are great things. Take french lessons for example (or any other language lesson) most people probaly wont need to know that so it would be better to replace them with computer lessons.

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I agree, in our modern world, they should be mandatory, the problem is, they don't provide the resources to make it happen.

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Originally Posted by Ideas Man

I agree, in our modern world, they should be mandatory, the problem is, they don't provide the resources to make it happen.

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wellll if you're talking about the US they have a lot of comp lessons in highschools:D
if you're talking about the rest of the world (3rd world countries mostly), then yeah a lot of people are behind :cry:

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Originally Posted by MrPolite

wellll if you're talking about the US they have a lot of comp lessons in highschools:D
if you're talking about the rest of the world (3rd world countries mostly), then yeah a lot of people are behind :cry:

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Australia, we're up there, but our state government ATM is stuffed up and well, yeah, you get that.

In High School we didn't have any decent machines, only about 20 Archimedes rigs.

In college they had a LAN with four P100 boxes in a row. Me and my mates Chris & Joel pwnd it. Quake tournaments after hours and online gambling. Sweet.

I learned all about windows in a semester and I started coding for windows the same year (VBA!). Then we disabled the RM windows shell and got the admin's password with a spoofed login screen. God bless Win95a.

Never had a single computer class in my life apart from City And Guilds but that was only to ask for the exam immediately.

The sad fact is that most programmers will find conventional computer classes inadequate. We are already advanced users and do not waste our time with how to do a mail merge in word or whatever. For the kinds of classes we require we should look to specialists.

Argh... Classes are required at my skewl, 40min a day in grade 9-10. Nothing but "All the right type" and Mail merge. :(

This year i took a advanced course... and i got Front Page, Mail Merge

Well it cant really complain, i got 80min a day to play around on the internet, and the final project took me 3 days to do (this project was suspose to be done over the entire semester)

Most of my computer classes are unbareable, so borring.

Well in the UK when we get to high school - who have the resources - we only get 8 computer lessons :cry: becuase were mixed in with sex education and like thing me bob (sorry forgot your name) said its the modern world.

This is a few years back now, but the computer lessons mainly consisted of Office and Desktop Publishers!?!
Programming was done in Pascal (shudders) and even then it was the basics only.

I only started learning how to program once I reached University level. :thumb:

I want to be a computer and software engineer but we learn nothing about that at school - i learned all of what i know about that at home. ;)

Got tons at mine... don't know how many, but my skills are to great for them.

I had none until I went into a computing course at college. That summer I actually got a PC and thats my real first experiance with a PC system (I had an atari but nothing to it really) :)

8 hours, you were lucky!

When I were young we didn't have computers at all...we had 150 of us in a class..well, I say class, it were more of a windswept field overlooking a toxic waste dump, but it were a class to us like...and we had to wander round pretending to be electrons in a doped silicon wafer. That were as near to a computer class as we had.

And you try telling that to the youth of today..they won't believe you.

The best thing about my computer lessons (on the old archimedes machines) was that I could totally ignore the teacher for 55 minutes and when he angrily walked over (to sarcastically make an example of my for not listening) at the end of the lesson he say something like "So Mr Smartarse, did you get all that, mybe you can show us all how its done."

I'd say "Sure", and dead casually accomplish the whole lesson's worth of stuff in about 10 seconds. He ignored me for the rest of term. It sucked though because everyone was forced to write lame "traffic lights" simulators and crap like that. It wasn't even in a real programming language. No challenge at all, no stimulation.

Yea sure merrion looking at your birthdate

sure I got lessons, they taught me how to use Ctrl-Alt-Supr, thats my most used combination to the day :afrog:

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Originally Posted by Xcoder

sure I got lessons, they taught me how to use Ctrl-Alt-Supr, thats my most used combination to the day :afrog:

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That will come in very handy in a job CV! :thumb:

At my first high school we had about 40 different computer courses you could take. then i moved down south and now we have just 3

I only got 4 at my school.
Computer Programming 1 - VB
Computer Programming 2 - VB
Honors Comp. Programming - C++
Ap Comp. Programming - Java

I think Apple must have given one hell of a deal to my old grade school. Seemed like every computer was an apple with a monochrome monitor. I still remember a game we had from back then, was called oregon trail.

Acorns seemed to be the in thing when I was at school :afrog:

My school have viglen - i think all the schools in this area have viglen must be some deal.

I never took a computer class. They became mandatory in my HS for the year following mine. Same thing with college.

How did you get through school with out computer lessons

Ahh I remember the oregon trail.. Awesome game =P. I also had santa jet pack or something like that really awesome game.

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Originally Posted by Tom_Sample_UK

How did you get through school with out computer lessons

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Why on earth would someone want to actually study computers in school?

At the risk of sounding old...

These days they need to learn them. When we started education PC's didnt really exist (if at all) therefore they were never seen as important. Now however they are everywhere. Computers have only really taken off in the past 20 years and probably 15 years or less for most people :)

Isit something in Ireland that you dont learn computers becuase Merrion didnt either! :ehh:

True - but my lack of education was provided by the UK two-tier education system.

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Originally Posted by BodwadUK

At the risk of sounding old...

These days they need to learn them. When we started education PC's didnt really exist (if at all) therefore they were never seen as important. Now however they are everywhere. Computers have only really taken off in the past 20 years and probably 15 years or less for most people :)

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Dude, I was in HS when you were born. WE had computers, where did you go to school? Actually, I think you have answered that. Or are you lying about your age?

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Originally Posted by plenderj

Why on earth would someone want to actually study computers in school?

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That was why I skipped the voluntary computer classes.

***** i feel young, ive had computer lessons since i started junior school, even though the teacher thought theyd never "take off" the i took IT at GCSE then took computing at A-level and now studying Computer and Network Technology at Northumbria uni

My computer class consisted of learning how to:
Use WORD
Use EXCEL
Use PRESENTATIONS - Which I basically owned with my all-mighty ingenouity (*gasp*, I can make things fade out if I put more background again!?) (I
didn't know VBA yet, which would've really kicked ass, but oh well)
Use Some weird kind of movie program (no, not presentations), which I promptly
became more proficient at than the teacher (hey, look, there's a place where
you can write code in...)
Use ... ummm... no that's it. I wrote a really bad mario game in grade 10 and don't want to mention it. ... Damn.

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Originally Posted by Tom_Sample_UK

I am going to high school soon and i only get about 8 computer lessons. Did this happen to anyone else :cry:

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Lucky you. I never got any in school. Only learned through buying books as a kid with code, typing them in, wondering why they didn't work, debugging them, running them, fixing them, looking for more, ad nauseum.

Well, our class gets 2 periods per week, which makes 2 hours and a half per week. This could be due to Canadian Standards. ;)

And yes, I am talking about high school. Ever since the beginning of high school (3 years ago) , we've learned HTML, Flash, Adobe Premiere, XSI, VB, and of course, Office (Word, Excel, Publisher). Do I need to mention I am just 13 years old? Yet to come (still in high school): C#, Advanced VB, Advanced 3d Animation.

:bigyello:

Is it like the theme of the month to bump ancient threads :sick:

Ahhh My Highschool... One class even worth mentioning (since the rest were crappy "typing" classes)... but it was awesome. Autocad Design self-paced course, got through two semesters worth of stuff in about a month, after that, the teacher set me free to move onto AutoCad 3D Design, and 3DStudio... Lightwave, etc... months of just playing around with that ... my pictures are still up at the high school of the 3d images I printed out about 8 years ago :D

i had microsoft office lessons a whole class on word , powerpoint , excel. those were fun. Took a crap webdesign class, teacher had never taught it of knew how. Me and 3 other guys pretty much taught it, and I had never done it before! Was a waste of time though, used frontpage, didnt learn nothing. There were NO programming classes. I was so mad. I would go to the library and use Qbasic and make games, the teachers would always throw the line... "Was that assigned by a teacher" She once even hit me with... "You know Qbasic is illegal"
That was like two years ago, if microsoft were to jail me for "illegally" downloading Qbasic... Well... I dont know what I do, but I doubt it.
All schools need programming classes

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Originally Posted by gigemboy

Ahhh My Highschool... One class even worth mentioning (since the rest were crappy "typing" classes)... but it was awesome. Autocad Design self-paced course, got through two semesters worth of stuff in about a month, after that, the teacher set me free to move onto AutoCad 3D Design, and 3DStudio... Lightwave, etc... months of just playing around with that ... my pictures are still up at the high school of the 3d images I printed out about 8 years ago :D

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Yeah i had a technology class like that, I use lightwave... awesome program, I made a skating video with it!

My high school didn't start offering programming classes until my junior year (I did have LogoWriter when i was in 3rd grade). 1 semester QBASIC, 1 semester PASCAL, 1 semester C++ and then 1 semester "advanced" programing concepts. The teacher was also the school's network administrator, so it really was 6 nerds hanging out teaching ourselves and then getting evaluated on Fridays.

Ironically, it was the best way to teach the class. Instead of her teaching as if it was gosphel; it was 6 people testing and tweaking to see who can figure out the "best" way to do it (Pride and ego in moderation is actually a VERY good motivator). Originally, she would tell us that we're wrong and this is what the teacher's manual said to do it... But since it was the same 6 of us each semester in each class; she started to wear down and asked "why" we thought that way. Sometimes we were right, sometimes we were wrong. Other times we accomplished absolutely nothing and spent the whole class defending what we thought was "the way to do it" (which should be a class in itself and mandatory for any IT professional :)).

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Originally Posted by Tom_Sample_UK

I am going to high school soon and i only get about 8 computer lessons. Did this happen to anyone else :cry:

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uhm when i was in highschool i only had 1 on my senior year there (1999). For lessons, i only worked on DOS, then turning on pixels as program, lots of gotos, then 5.1 inch floppies. didn't know about ms and was mulling over how to memorize the keyboard keys for exams. :cry: , count yourself lucky.

We already learned stuff about computers at primary school. And we had to do computer exams during highschool .