Sorry, I didn't identify you as the original poster. I appreciate any effort to help kids learn to program and be better prepared for college computer science.

Sorry, I didn't identify you as the original poster. I appreciate any effort to help kids learn to program and be better prepared for college computer science. You are correct in saying that my irritation is with College Board and the average college computer science curriculum. I am being hard on the abstract high school computer curriculum. It's a lofty argument, and there isn't much that individuals can do to change it. HN is often the place that people shout into the bitvoid and expect people with similar opinions to echo back. This isn't particularly useful, but c'est la vie. In this case I started off with a snarky comment that probably would have been ignored except for the lack of other comments.