I can tell you it wasn't available in my high school. We had one class called "Web development" that was nothing more than playing with a WYSIWIG editor. One s

I can tell you it wasn't available in my high school. We had one class called "Web development" that was nothing more than playing with a WYSIWIG editor. One student was kicked out for creating their webpage in Notepad, because the teacher thought it was "hacking". This was discouraging. I enrolled in the local community college during high school and took a "Programming 101" class. We learned how to use if statements, variables, functions, simple loops, and almost made it to arrays after _3 months_. 102 and 103 weren't much better. This was also discouraging. The head of the CS department eventually told me not to waste my time taking the CS classes there, that they were worthless and won't transfer, and I should wait until I get to a university. Is this what we want?