Local college wasn't, for me, a good place to learn hacking (They taught C++, and at the fourth week we were still on 'Hello World'. I was asleep at that point

Local college wasn't, for me, a good place to learn hacking (They taught C++, and at the fourth week we were still on 'Hello World'. I was asleep at that point :) ) This would be an accelerated course. Instead of teaching C, Hacker School could teach a higher level language like Lisp or Ruby/Python. Would it work if the focus was actually founding startups, though? Four years of intensive programming training followed by the chance to found a startup (or co-found one) when you've graduated. Class projects could even be to actually launch startups, as a class. We can do better.. We can at least try to do better than what's offered out there. I didn't have a place to be creative in high school. That happened after school, during the night. I know thousands of other kids are in the exact same place as I was.. Could we somehow give them a little hope?