[dragonwriter]

> I just graduated from primary school in the US. I want to be a programmer, but I never once took a programming class.

Normally I would say "that's okay, you've got plenty of time to do that in secondary school (middle/high school)". But then you go on to say this:

> Most of my peers still have NO idea what they would like to study, even though some of them are paying $10,000-$20,000 to go to college.

If you just graduated from primary school, why are your peers going to college? That's quite odd. I suspect, in declining order of likelihood, that either "primary school", or "college", or "peers" is an error...

[zanny]

US doesn't see middle / high as "secondary" school. Secondary school is college. Primary school is just the K-12 process because it is continuous with no breaks in between, besides maybe the divide between one year being led around hallways by a teacher and next going room to room on your own.

[dragonwriter]

> US doesn't see middle / high as "secondary" school.

Yes, it does. [1]

> Secondary school is college.

No, secondary school is either equivalent to "high school" or equivalent to "middle and high school". [2] College is "post-secondary school". [3]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_school#United_States

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_school#United_States

[3] e.g., http://www.cpec.ca.gov/SecondPages/CommissionHistory.asp

[SirSkidmore]

yeah, sorry, fixed. It's a Monday, can you tell?