[Army Air Corps]

Basic coding was offered even when I was in High School

I bet that the same was offered in their high schools, but that was "like, too dorky for them, like, yannow, to do." I composed my first line of code in my Junior High computer science class. I loved seeing the results of typing line after line of code - there is satisfaction in that.

[rhombus10]

The challenge on "learning to code" is that there's another code coming out daily. This is why most companies hire interns who know the latest. Why train people when you can hire interns (or ship the job overseas)? Sad but that's how it works now.

As for journalism, nobody remembers what that is. That being said, there never was any objective, non-partisan journalism. That's a myth started by the left that wants everyone to buy their crap. Was Poor Richard's Almanac non-partisan? Of course not. Everyone is partisan.

[Myrddin]

No computer classes for me in junior high. Just a slide rule, pencil and paper. My freshman physics at UCSD in 1974 was aided by a 4 function Radio Shack calculator. It was necessary to to square roots by successive approximation. A year later, I had a nice Casio scientific calculator that included factorial notation...key for those combinatorial genetics calculations. My graduation present in June 1976 was an HP25 that I could program to do high precision interpolation of genetics crossover frequency tables found in Schaum's Genetics review. Later in the year, I had the pleasure of selling the first 5 TRS-80 Model I computers from the Radio Shack store in Mission Valley (San Diego) in Sept 1976.