Eh, while it might not have sparked my interest I would say doing High School Computer Science electives certainly solidified "I want to program". Actually doi

Eh, while it might not have sparked my interest I would say doing High School Computer Science electives certainly solidified "I want to program". Actually doing the thing is important and given you can do that with Computer Science in schools discarding it because "you learn faster on your own" feels suboptimal. Also while Internet access at home seems ubiquitous we don't have full coverage of high speed internet nationally so for some students being able to take a course could make all the difference.