That's too bad. In my middle school we had an instructor who was really passionate about computers, and the kids in his class.
This was '93-95. The majority of the computers were monochrome Macs, but his instructor machine was a color computer. We did Hypercard, and other bits I've since forgotten.
What I can remember is buying tons of floppies (which I might still have - I did a couple years ago) and staying after school to play Bolo. With his color computer, and practice, he kicked the rest of our butts in the game. Floppies were to store the 'Brains' that we got off the internet, as well as maps we had made, or that we got online.
I know for me that initial foray into computers, something we wouldn't have in our house until late high school, lead to me working on web sites late at night (AOL's HTML documentation being how I learned basic HTML), which lead me to not taking any computer classes in college, but still ending up as a web developer by trade (15+ years professionally).
High school was definitely a difference experience; DOS machines at the time, with Apples being in a different room later, that were taught primarily as word processors.
Unlike middle school, I believe we got in trouble when we tried to play games (Hexen being one of them) after class.
This was '93-95. The majority of the computers were monochrome Macs, but his instructor machine was a color computer. We did Hypercard, and other bits I've since forgotten.
What I can remember is buying tons of floppies (which I might still have - I did a couple years ago) and staying after school to play Bolo. With his color computer, and practice, he kicked the rest of our butts in the game. Floppies were to store the 'Brains' that we got off the internet, as well as maps we had made, or that we got online.
I know for me that initial foray into computers, something we wouldn't have in our house until late high school, lead to me working on web sites late at night (AOL's HTML documentation being how I learned basic HTML), which lead me to not taking any computer classes in college, but still ending up as a web developer by trade (15+ years professionally).
High school was definitely a difference experience; DOS machines at the time, with Apples being in a different room later, that were taught primarily as word processors.
Unlike middle school, I believe we got in trouble when we tried to play games (Hexen being one of them) after class.