Another Vietnamese here. I have been oversea for a while so I don't know how exactly things have changed over the years, but in my time things were totally diff

Another Vietnamese here. I have been oversea for a while so I don't know how exactly things have changed over the years, but in my time things were totally different from this. When I was in primary school, they didn't teach anything related to programming. Only when I got to grade 8 that we got to learn Pascal (which I decided to pick up myself since grade 6). Most of my friends struggled big time with it in the next 5 years. They didn't even understand the basic concepts. But I guess the one to be blamed is the way programming was being taught back then. It did not create any motivations for people to study. So I'm glad that it has changed, for the better. Regarding the part where author said "Vietnam is a 100% Windows XP monoculture" is not quite true. Especially in the recent years. Many people have adopted Windows 7 and even Windows 8, and stuff like Android smartphones or iPhone are getting more and more prevalent. I guess what happened is that schools don't have the budget to upgrade both software and hardware. That will take some time.