[walshemj]

This was in a comprehensive i.e. a bog standard school and was in the middle i.e. vocational stream - possibly the approach of having specialisation at the middle and upper school works better for feeding children into UNI/Vocational track.

[kasey_junk]

Right, so the bog standard schools you had the opportunity to attend offered something mine (and many others) do not. As someone who is always looking for good developers I certainly don't want to limit the number of people who can learn CS to only those who happened to live somewhere that offered programming at the public school level.

[walshemj]

possibly not fetishizing CS over a more useful general introduction to programming might help.

I haven't had to do any of the big O stuff in anger but I have had to make sure a major telcos billing system reconciled.