I Am a Computer Geek

Back in school their idea of "IT" was to go over and over Microsoft Office for six years. We just played flash games. Despite that, I have some degree of a knack with computers, but thanks to them never considering programming a thing, I'm mostly specialising in the hardware and general troubleshooting. I still resent the complete worthlessness of the computing curriculum this country had when I was growing up, but such is life. I just wish I was a better self-teacher in that sort of stuff.

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Existentior · M

That was not IT back in my high school. It was this:
- ALGOL
- BASIC
- Pascal
- Hardware basics, building various builds
- Electronics education
- basics of TCP/IP
- number theory, logic theory
- Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access
- Computer mathematics and computational equations

Gauntlets28 · 26-30, M

Yeah, that would have been nice. For a long while though there was a period where they were catering only to the whole "service economy" crap, and cut out anything that involved actually producing stuff. I hear there was some programming at around A-level, but by that point it was way too late. Nowadays they've reformed it though, so that computer programming is something they do right from the off in secondary school I believe.

Existentior · M

@Gauntlets28: That is true, hence the Pascal I mentioned.

Marksman567 · 22-25, M

For us the only two Office apps that we were actually taught up to this point was Word and PowerPoint. The only reason I can consider myself decent in using Excel is because I self-taught when I was younger since anything past Word and PowerPoint in terms of Office we haven't even touched until recently. We do have programming classes in VB and Java though which I'm thankful for. The software they use is over a decade old, but I guess as long as it still works. Considering I'm in my last year of high school though, they probably ended up doing some reforming in elementary/middle school that I just wasn't able to take from since it was after my time.

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