Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

Uh, no? I don't know the first thing about why you got a D in your high school class; I just don't presume anything about anyone based on their grades in compulsory schooling. But please, tell me more about my experience, and that of this third party you have never met.

AP isn't compulsory. Only a few get selected and I was lucky to make the cut. Are you saying the panics, and the confusion, and the fear of letting classmates down on shared projects are... made up? I was faking the whole thing? I still learned to code.

I think we're just talking past each other. I'm sorry this was such a difficult experience for you, and a terrible early introduction to something you'd later come to love. I'm glad you found your way back to it.

The worse part... half the class was about sorting techniques. After 20 years of doing this, I've used sorting techniques twice. They just assumed computing resources would always be expensive. Was it a JS bootcamp?

Python/js. Pretty light on CS principles, mostly focused on getting everyone to the point where they could spin up a flask app & work with APIs without hitting any walls, with a really quick go at resource management, testing, etc. It was definitely bare bones, but fun

Python and JS are deceptive. JS more so because it hides so, so much from you. The transpiling garbage from post-2008 obfuscated even more. Python likes to pretend its civilized because it aims for the dialect instead of a purpose. All noobs should start on QBASIC, imo.

QBASIC has no practical application, other than showing the history of coding psychology. Hiding the evolution of programming from people only means making Taylorized data plumbers, not meticulous and critical programmers. Bootcamps make plumbers, not metallurgists.