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Originally Posted by b1crunch
I went to elementary in North East Calgary (Temple), and we used computers to type on, play games, etc. Then my family moved to Edmonton (E=NG) for Junior High and High School. I used computers there for lots of stuff. We learned to make websites, used software to format our own brochures, magazine articles, image editing, etc. I was making my own websites by the time I was in grade 12 and it was something I learned in school. I look back fondly on these skills, as they helped set me up for what I still do today.
Definitely sounds like I had more exposure to computers at school than you. It was a positive as well, because my family couldn't afford a PC at home until I was in high school, so all of my computer exposure was at school until I was about 17.
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That was definitely way more exposure than we had in Junior High and High School. Junior High was very basic stuff on old Macs and it was just limited to firing up the machine, inserting a floppy and running the typing or math game. High School was still basic typing and some research skills like searching the internet or digital encyclopedias. We had no exposure to coding/development, websites, etc or even to basic things like Excel and PowerPoint. There was the occasional project or report that a teacher would request be submitted typed out so that we were forced to spend some time on the computers but my experience is way different from yours. I actually probably would have been interesting in learning some development stuff if it was available to me but I became pretty scared of that stuff. It wasn't until I started working and exploring VBA and Macros in order to speed things up that I saw what I had missed out on over the years.