All these people talking about learning to code at school makes me feel old. There wasn't even an option to learn programming when I was at school. Had to teach myself!

I had to self-teach too. Now my little cousins are learning to code in their Primary school (UK). They're about 10-11 and learning VB.

There was no computers in my primary school, thats going back b4 internet though. My son has an ipad at his primary school linked to the class white board (he's visually impaired). They are just starting to embrace coding. Its a wonderful thing that this is finally making inroads into the core syllabus. 👍🏼

Depending on the school: Be glad. At my computer courses in school it was most of the time: "This is a keyboard, this a mouse, this is the turbo button, and now click on the icon saying Word and save your documents on to the floppy disk."

Once we got into programming, it was really, really basic. Even worse, it was QBASIC. Only in later classes, our teacher got wild and we were allowed to do some JavaScript, HTML and had to write some MySQL queries. But that all happened on the drive of the teacher.

It was such a boring experience and if I was not already interested in programming as a hobby, these courses would have killed any aspiration to program.

I really, really hope that the young ones have it better today.

@k0pernikus well you got to start with qbasic.

I had vic 20 basic and later gwbasic.

No functions only goto and gosub (linenumber).