Making the curriculum broader and "focusing on synergies" is worthless. The real problem is that most high school programming classes suck. It is rare to find s

Making the curriculum broader and "focusing on synergies" is worthless. The real problem is that most high school programming classes suck. It is rare to find someone who's a good programmer, and also a high school teacher, for the obvious reason that high schools can't pay programmer salaries. So you end up learning stuff like "define a private variable... what does 'constant' mean... what is an object" rather than an understanding of how to write real programs. Maybe a class where you actually build something would be better. The AP curriculum, though, is pretty worthless.