"it was part of the school curriculum until the age of 14 that everyone had to some coding" Not when I was at school in the 80s it wasn't. We had some school

"it was part of the school curriculum until the age of 14 that everyone had to some coding" Not when I was at school in the 80s it wasn't. We had some school computers (PETs, RM 380Z), but one had to be proactive to use them. They were not used as part of any syllabus. I recall there was a computing option available, but it was useless, and AFAIK did not include coding. Possibly post 1984 when the school got a bunch of Beebs, it may have been added, but by then I was past the leaving age (15/16 at the time), and in the 6th form. Anyway, the joys of 6502 assembly, Z80 / 8080 assembly, and using CP/M. An even earlier machine which hasn't been mentioned yet was the UK101, I got a second hand one of those in the early 80s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK101 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK101