One thing I like about UC Berkeley is that we have a CS 10 class which is open to anyone and is actually pre-CS. It teaches the very basic concepts of programmi

One thing I like about UC Berkeley is that we have a CS 10 class which is open to anyone and is actually pre-CS. It teaches the very basic concepts of programming with Snap, a drag and drop programming language. That way people who haven't had that entry level stuff might catch up. A lot of it is reiterated in the first CS class too, in Python (a notably high level scripting language), but they also move on to some interesting things like recursion.