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Austria, HTL from age 14 to 19 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B6here_Technische_Lehrans...). Wikipedia calls it college for some reason, our English teacher always called it a high school (with a focus on engineering disciplines; EE in my case) and compared it to such when showing us charts of education systems in UK, US vs Austria.

I'm not sure how various schools/countries do ICT education in comparison, but I at least heard that friends of mine who stayed in grammar school past age 14 were exposed to Borland Delphi at some point.

Every time the topic "tiny webserver in C" come up on HN, I always thought that the people who never did something like this were perhaps self-taught (similar to "write a tiny shell in C" which was also a standard exercise in our universities operating systems course). I have a hard time trying to imagine how one could possibly teach a college or university level course on networking without doing exercises like that.