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Back when I went to high school, the tech curriculum was so rudimentary that the most knowledgeable programmers in the school were the self-taught teenage hacke

Back when I went to high school, the tech curriculum was so rudimentary that the most knowledgeable programmers in the school were the self-taught teenage hackers. From the school's perspective their relationship with programming was adversarial, trying to prevent students from breaking into things or defacing the lab equipment. I wonder if this is still the case.

antonzabirko 6y ago
That's usually true even with a good curriculum...
h2odragon 6y ago
I wasn't allowed to take the programming class at my high school because they were afraid to let me use the AT&T 3b2 they used.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
Of course that's still the case. Children are little shits and don't care if they cause everyone else a lot of work to undo whatever it was they thought was funny that day. I know this because I was once that kid, and the universe gave me my comeuppance when I had to be a school system IT guy dealing with kids like me.