It's better than C++, it's worse than C. Better than Perl, maybe worse than Python. It's the perfect language for classes which don't actually teach you how to program, but instead just teach you how to be a code monkey.
As andreyf said, if you're serious, high school may not teach you much, or so says my own experience. I am only in tenth grade right now, but by my estimation I probably already know the whole CS curriculum at my school (although supposedly it is advanced). I suppose this is actually a very good thing, because I've learned how to learn on my own.
I'm sort of in the same boat as you. What I've noticed though, is that many (if not most) of the students don't really want to learn CS, they just want to take the course. Sad but true.
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Depends on what you're comparing with.
It's better than C++, it's worse than C. Better than Perl, maybe worse than Python. It's the perfect language for classes which don't actually teach you how to program, but instead just teach you how to be a code monkey.
As andreyf said, if you're serious, high school may not teach you much, or so says my own experience. I am only in tenth grade right now, but by my estimation I probably already know the whole CS curriculum at my school (although supposedly it is advanced). I suppose this is actually a very good thing, because I've learned how to learn on my own.
I'm sort of in the same boat as you. What I've noticed though, is that many (if not most) of the students don't really want to learn CS, they just want to take the course. Sad but true.