Schools do a terrible job getting people excited about computer science and even worse software engineering. You start with C and Java and a bunch of arcane

Schools do a terrible job getting people excited about computer science and even worse software engineering. You start with C and Java and a bunch of arcane syntax and commands to print 'Hello World' when you could start by making simple games or apps and working backwards to introduce CS concepts mr miyagi style. I started with Basic in elementary and PHP in middle/high school and by the time I got to college - young arrogant me was like, "what is this C/java noise and why do I need it when I can already do all this cool stuff with php!". I didn't really start appreciating CS and how it applies to software engineering until much later.