When I entered my brand-new junior high school in 1965, they had expensive metal shops and wood shops, but they should have offered an electronics lab (which co

When I entered my brand-new junior high school in 1965, they had expensive metal shops and wood shops, but they should have offered an electronics lab (which could have been stocked for far less than a metal/wood shop). When I entered high school in 1968, all the girls went to home economics classes and the guys took drafting and/or auto shop. Still no electronics. In 1969 I stumbled upon free self-guided programming access to a 360/67 (punched cards, WATFOR) at the local military base and spent the next two years teaching myself as much programming as I could, while my high school remained oblivious to the computer revolution. When I got to college in 1971 they only offered graduate degrees in computer science; undergraduates interested in CS were expected to take "math sciences". Apparently it takes a while for education systems to realize where the future is headed.