I remember when I was in third year high school one of our subjects was computer. It was a minor subject and was just part of our technology and home economics class (THE). What was memorable about that subject was that we changed teachers twice within a period of one year because the regular teacher was involved in a motorcycle accident so she had to take a leave of absence. The teachers were slightly more memorable than the lessons. The first teacher was a guy who was very fond of wearing sandals with socks and the next one was a girl with very curly hair who was very fond of wearing a blue blazer. Thinking about it now, wearing the blazer made her appear older than she really was. If I remember the gossips right, she was still in college when she taught us BASIC Programming. Then of course there was the regular teacher. Her leg was still in a cast when she came back to teach. I can still clearly remember her telling us that riding a motorcycle was like riding your tomb.
I do not remember much about the class except that we were taught about the different parts of a computer like the ram, CPU, monitor, etc, and of course BASIC programming. All I can remember about it was that I did not understand anything and the only reason I did not fail was because the grade for that class was just a small part of the THE class. I could not understand how typing the words “go to†could generate something. Of course, it did not help that all these lectures were done only with the aid of a blackboard and chalk. I had to listen to the curly haired teacher talk gibberish and copy down her notes on the blackboard without any clue to what she was talking about. We only visited the computer room to try out the commands once or twice during the whole year and for only a few minutes. You can say I learned more from our typing class. At least we got to use typewriters extensively during every class.
Of course high school was a long time ago and I am sure computer classes nowadays have improved much since that time.
