At my school, I have no idea what kind of computers they are, but they're more powerful than mine, and mine is a pretty new (a few months old) computer! They have a bunch of programs on them, including Photoshop, all of Microsoft Office, Macromedia Flash and Dreamweaver, and loads of other cool stuff.

We even have Counter Strike on the computers (no lie, we get to play CS in class (since it's the last week of term at the moment))!

But yeah, we use the computer labs a lot in our school, there are 6 computer labs total: one in the library, one in the science block, one in the technology block, two on the second floor and one on the third. So, basically any class can just head off to a computer lab if needed (though some are booked for some lessons). Anything that we need to use computers for, or a computer can facilitate us, we use the computer labs.

There are even some class rooms that have computers (though they are older computers, probably 3 years old or less).

We also have a lot of technology classes, including: Internets & Intranets, Digital Images, Multimedia, Computer Applications, and Computer Programming.

Though, I think it would be awsome if every student got a laptop from the school

 

 

 

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At my high school we learned GWBASIC for programming...yupp...we did indeed...it was awesome in an "OMG LET ME DIE NOW PEACEFULLY!!!" kind of way...

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OMG! No kidding!?

At my school (high school), we learn C (no, not C++, but C)!!! We are learning to write console (CIR) programs!!! No OOP (object oriented programming) at all... Here's the thing: I know more about programming than my teacher! She literally copies already written programs from her book onto the blackboard and starts to read the explanation from that same book! (Not to mention, she is always 15-20 minutes late for class).

Hello! Reality check! It's the year 2005, and we are still learning technologies that were used in 1990! I respect that, and I know that we must learn the basics of programming, but why do we have to run Borland's Turbo C that is struggling to work on AMD 2000+ (512MB or RAM) machines with Windows XP!? We are going to learn C, Pascal, Basic and ASM in our school, but the programs that will be used for compiling programs are Turbo C, Turbo Pascal and Microsoft's QBASIC! Now, that's old! Because we haven't learned anything from this teacher (I didn't had any problems with this teacher because I already knew C), we requested a new teacher for the next year, and hopefully we will get one because we can't take this no more!

Counter Strike? Quake? Warcraft? No way! The school staff made a Norton Ghost image of the hard disk and they restore it every week! Therefore, installing a program or a game on this PC is not worth it...

 

 

 

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You're right, when I was in high school I dont even know or visual the computer, I am just using manual typewritten in my school, we don't have computer classes also, that is why when I came in to college, I feel that I am a late bloomer.... that was really annoying. But off course it doens't mean also that you can't learn computer even if you are in late age, as long as you a decied and willing to learn...

I have a daughter now and she's about turning to 4 next september, I you know what... she can draw using powerpoint program I am so very proud because during my time, I started college and yet don't know how to draw ha ha ha.. that was so funny,... I keep on teaching her everything I know in computer as possible because I want her to become succesful someday... as you said,, if you dont know how to used computer at this age... well, you totally disabled....

I think the kids today should learn computer also and include the computer subject as part of their study... we are almost in the computerized world so young should learn how to adopt this kind of world we have right now...

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C and ASM arn't really out of date... although learning some OO would be helpful in high school for people going on to study comp sci. Its nothing hard but you need to wrap your head around the concept...even though alot of modern C code is really close to being OO anyways, just missing some features

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True, but that still doesn't mean that we should use Turbo C instead of Borland's C++ builder (that can also compile C code). If we type our code in Turbo C (windowed mode), the letters appear very slowly, and it is very annoying and difficult to do our work, the situation is better if we switch to full screen mode, but then the resolution drops and the screen refresh rate is 70Hz... Plus, if we want to switch to graphics mode, we have to type a very large portion of code just to draw a line on the screen (in C++ builder, we would just put a button onto a form).

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If they would start with this it would be great. In my country we have kinda "class of Information", just in the 1 year (secondary school) where we learn how to use word, power point, excel. But that's nothing new for me. This things I already know and it was a little boring for me to listen and to do this things all over again. It would be better if they'll try to teach us something more interesting, like programming in different languages,...

The main problem why this has not started yet and it doesn't look that it will start soon is money. The technology is developing to fast. If they want to teach us new things that would mean that they have to buy kinda each 2 years new computers, new software, etc.
Ant that's not really cheap. Just for one school that would be about 50.000 €, I guess?
And for whole country?? Each 2 years to spend that much money

But still, if we look from other side, that's not good, because people need to know how to use computers if they want to get a good job in the future.

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guess what? i went to my college conference yesterday, thay are using windows me or windows 2000 pro, i dont remember but damn slow, crappy hardware. i think i have AMD 2500 in my secondary school and microsoft windows xp pro. anyway. the course in my college is worth 2 A-levels (basically 2 qualification) and all we going for the course is about learning how to built a computer, understanding mircrosoft windows office and that kind of things, i thought we need to write up programs or some script before i went there, this is really dissapointed me as we still doing microsoft office in college.

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My school has a horrible budget for everything, but technology especially. Last year they installed Windows 2000 Professional on the computers and the computer teacher acted like she was given a free copy of Photoshop. Thats how horrible our technology is. By the way the computers are around 7-8 years old now.

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Windows 2000 professional on those old computers!? I lost my mind when my teachers installed Windows NT on a bunch of old Pentium 1 machines (with RAM memory ranging from 16 to a maximum of 32MB)! Even on the "strongest machine" (233MHz, 32MB ram, 2.5GB HDD), Windows NT is sloooooow! I don't know how they even dared to try out Windows 2000...

Thank God, we don't use these computers anymore, only the new ones, however, some classes are still learning Word 2000 on it!

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