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Personal experience?

I had basically a machine shop course in mechanical engineering in college. OK, it was a bit more than that but I had no "shop" in high school.

Certainly nothing in high school anything that would have really prepared me for a civil engineering or or chemical engineering degree.

I had actually done a little bit of fiddling around with electronics (and maybe should have majored in that). But certainly college would have been a whole different level. (With a whole lot more math which was never my strong suit.)

So, yeah, these days I think there's a different baseline assumption for CS/programming than many other majors.