My school offered a computer class that was effectively just a typing class in both middle school and high school. We also had available to us a Pascal course,

My school offered a computer class that was effectively just a typing class in both middle school and high school. We also had available to us a Pascal course, a C++ course, and an AP Comp Sci (at the time it was still C++). The core curriculum never got into anything too sophisticated (the AP final project was the most ambitious thing most people worked on) but the teacher allowed those who were comfortable to explore other areas on the side. The most valuable part of the class, in my opinion, was the teachers approach. She would use an overhead projector and write out memory allocations and then show step by step how different allocations were changing as you went through a program. This step by step approach was extremely helpful when trying to internalize the nature of variables, how sort algorithms worked, etc. I could possibly get you in touch with my old HS teacher, my email is in my profile.