I'm a weirdo. I did not take any programming classes in high school. BUT... My first code was at around age 7 (in the mid-1980s). I found a computer (Commodor

I'm a weirdo. I did not take any programming classes in high school. BUT... My first code was at around age 7 (in the mid-1980s). I found a computer (Commodore 64, including manual) in a very rural area off the side of a road where some people dumped trash. And at school, I got invited into a special program starting around second grade, that included doing some projects in BASIC. But then I didn't really do any coding in high school. But then I majored in Computer Science. But then I dropped out... All that is to say, at least in my low-cost-of-living area, we had this weird dichotomy where a few special snowflakes got to learn programming in primary school, but then our high school didn't offer any programming classes at all!