I got to take a computer science course in high school. My teacher was one of the best I've had; she had been educated in the subject with punch cards, on the

I got to take a computer science course in high school. My teacher was one of the best I've had; she had been educated in the subject with punch cards, on the other side of the Iron Curtain. In the first class, she informed us that we would not be using the computers in the lab for the first half of the year. Half of the class dropped the course after that. I did not, and it changed my life. Pascal for me will always be blue on a whiteboard, semicolons optional.