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For 'highschoolers'...my computer science class in high school was learning autocad :O(.

My HS CS class included learning about coaxial Ethernet cabling and dumb terminals (yes, actual amber screen Wyse terminals). I graduated high school in 2002.

My HS CS class was mainly Turbo Pascal & Borland C++ on token-ring networked DOS computers. Graduated in '02.

At least you had a programming class. The computers at my high school didn't even have a compiler.

Tell that to kids today, and they won't believe you.

Except that so many of them have phones, phablets and tablets. Then they get to school and are handed a Chromebook. No compilers in sight!

P.S. My computer science class was split between 12 "green screens" and 12 card punch machines. Yes I'm old ;)

There are, at least, things like Termux (https://termux.com/), on Android. Just for laughs, I've been doing actual work (using git, vim, and Go) in Termux on my Nexus 10. Only two things got in my way: screen size and the inability to have a browser and terminal on screen at once. What's particularly sweet about Termux is that it has an APT-based package manager.

Given the right tools, even something as locked down as an Android tablet can be surprisingly effective development tool.

Windows had an msdos assembler preinstalled, last time I checked, which was before vista. Now the 16bit support was removed, but edge comes with a javascript engine, right?

I'm not sure I get what that has to do with the comment I made.

With asm I referred to the OP, the javascript engine bit could relate to the chrome developer tools a chromebook should sport or to sites like jsfiddle, codepen, the msp430 challenge at microcorruption.com, etc. etc. I tried to concur with you, basically.

How many kids in high school know what a 'compiler' is?

To clarify, I wasn't being all "get off my lawn". The computers at my high school ran Windows 2000.

Visual Basic for me, as well as Java on my own time.

mine was excel + html. javascript was too advanced?

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