Originally Posted by
Dae
High school computer teachers, in my experience, don't teach you much of anything. Usually they know the internet well enough to know that anything they want to teach you could be taugh to you better by some tutorial or book they know of. So what you end up getting is a teacher that sends you off to read the documentation of some compiler, an ebook on OOP, notes from this site, a tutorial from here. Pretty much the only purpose to the teacher then is supervision, making sure you're actually studying, telling you what you need to learn, and giving a test every once and a while.