>but i was lucky enough to have a high school computer and robotics teacher that let me explore things i found interesting for credit. You were lucky - the onl

>but i was lucky enough to have a high school computer and robotics teacher that let me explore things i found interesting for credit. You were lucky - the only thing that saved me from giving up entirely in high school were a few good books I found by browsing MIT's OpenCourseWare pages and other places. My high school was full of corrupt assholes who spent all the school's funding on elaborate sports complexes for our shitty sports sports teams, so that all the funding to our science, math and tech clubs dissolved and the library only had a few outdated dictionaries and some terrible fiction books. But I'm not bitter. (;