Chicago Goes 22nd Century: Computer Science is Now a CORE Subject

[Skarr]

My high school started offering AP Computer Science this year. I'm a senior and was really excited to take it. It's more fun than I even imagined it would be despite it being one of the easiest classes I've taken. Almost everything that will be on the exam has already been covered. My two friends and I are so far ahead of the rest of the class that we're allowed to work on things for fun.

[Explosions]

Maybe they should focus on getting the kids into the schools first. CPS is a joke.

[CoolKingKaso]

[QUOTE=MWSunder;43341024]At this rate 10 years from now programming will become everyone's fall-back career.

"Man I really wanted to be a history teacher but I guess I can settle on computer programming."

Saying you're a computer programmer or CS student 20 years from now will be the social equivalent of saying you're aspiring to be a janitor.[/QUOTE]

This kind of happened with art. The field was once regarded highly by the public, commisioners payed artists extremely high too. Artists weren't scrutinized for taking shortcuts on commercial work as they are now. Because of the disappearance of "elite schools" and the invention of the camera, it caused a high surge of new artists willing to express themselves. It's theorized that it led people to undercharge themselves in hopes of finding jobs. It's why western countries ship off their storyboards to be animated by eastern countries now.

[bull3tmagn3t]

I was lucky to have grades 10-12 computer science and computer engineering courses at a public school.

[Map in a box]

My high schools idea of computer science (and all of the computer classes really) is throw inexperienced teachers in a classroom to teach typing and Microsoft Word, while penalizing those that type slightly wrong even if they type faster than the teacher(cough)