How should high schools use 4 years to teach CS?

Question

How much time should high schools spend on CS and in what sort of courses? A year of Java? A year of Python?
A year doing mobile apps?

Answer 1

We start with C++, and then Java. By the second year, we should be choosing our minors and majors. This is when we go into the specifications - Software Engineering, Multimedia, Cyber Security, etc. This is where your choices decide what you do later on - Mobile app development, web services, operating systems, etc. Third year would be internship. Fourth year, well, your goddamn final year project.

Answer 2

😊I'm officially jealous.😖 When I was in highschool there wasn't that option to have programming. 🙃 I'm glad that school has evolved to see the importance of it!

🤔Or is this strictly a non American type school we are talking about?😭 If so then wtf USA!

PS. ⌨️I went to a typing class 1 semester in middle school does that count?

Answer 3

C/C++ for sure. They should start with that.

Answer 4

In my highschool we first learned alice, then visual studio, then java. I found alice to be a breeze, but when it came to visual studio I barely knew what class I was in. I think it's best to learn a higher level language like java / c# or c++ then STICK with it for the entire high school years. They can really teach a crap ton of material over a 4 year period and get into the more advanced applications of the language by final year. Or by final year move into C.