[ejanus]

>Teachers and professors are strongly underpaid, bribery in universities exists, IT teachers in pre-university levels frequently can’t even touch type, rely on outdated curriculum, use old textbooks that break apart

I am disappointed with your above statement. Has programming really changed in the last 4 decades ? The answer is no. Anyone who understands Pascal inside out and masters it enough to build anything with it would excellent in any language. So nothing is outdated here . And using pen and paper to learn programming may make abstraction easier to understand. If what you said is correct , ACM collegiate competitions tell a different story. If the system is broken and it still produces the best Olympians, then it is worth copying .

I am not from Eastern bloc