Lots of credit goes to the Garriott's high school administrators for being supportive: > When I got back to Houston, I told the faculty, 'I want to continue wo

Lots of credit goes to the Garriott's high school administrators for being supportive: > When I got back to Houston, I told the faculty, 'I want to continue working on this machine. There is no curriculum [for computer programming]. What I would like is your permission to, instead of taking a foreign language, please consider BASIC my foreign language.'" > The faculty gave him its blessing. Over his junior and senior years, Garriott and a few other students with permission to tailor their curriculum to their strengths embarked on self-guided journeys. And later on, the school president's office let him use the new Apple computer. Granted, times were different and records may not have been computerised, so there was no threat of changing grades and HACKING.