I collect old computers and books about old computers. All of the high schools here in Canada had programming as part of the curriculum in the '80s, as other posters have pointed out. COBOL, FORTRAN and others were part of the daily schedule as well as courses in simply understanding how computers worked? Why on earth did the 'brains' stop this? My neighbor got a job recently simply because he knew some of the old languages. The financial company that hired him still uses a mainframe, believe it or not, and his knowledge came in handy. Even if you learn BASIC, you will have some idea of how programming works.
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I collect old computers and books about old computers. All of the high schools here in Canada had programming as part of the curriculum in the '80s, as other posters have pointed out. COBOL, FORTRAN and others were part of the daily schedule as well as courses in simply understanding how computers worked? Why on earth did the 'brains' stop this? My neighbor got a job recently simply because he knew some of the old languages. The financial company that hired him still uses a mainframe, believe it or not, and his knowledge came in handy. Even if you learn BASIC, you will have some idea of how programming works.