Ugh, flashbacks to my my high school computer lab in 87.
Middle school had a lab full of Apple IIe’s, but then I went to HS and all they had were PETs. I think it was finally junior year when I was allowed to take the programming class. First semester was intro to programming and second semester was “advanced programming.” When second semester came it was only me and one other kid in class, and we both knew more about programming then the teacher. Our project was supposed to be a grade book program for the teacher. We both thought it was BS that he was using us for free labor, so we made a really good looking grade book program. Spent a bunch of time tweaking ASCII art, making all the menus look good and just basically making a really good UI on a PET. But we refused to put in any of the math to actually calculate grades. We had a finished version of the program, it wasn’t that hard to make, but we never gave it to him. At the end of the semester, he could enter in all the student names, enter their grades, and every report would return 0%. Even though he was teaching a programming class, we were pretty sure he didn’t actually know how to fix our work. We still both got A’s in the class.
