It is great for her future, however back in Portugal if you take the technical high school path, you are expected to be a good developer by 18, when done with high school as alternative path to university.
During my time it meant:
- Knowledge of BASIC (GW, Turbo and Quick), Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++, 80x86 Assembly, dBase III Plus and Clipper
- Databases and their data organization on harddisk
- Digital circuits
- OS design, with experience on MS-DOS/Netware and Xenix
- 3 months trainship at the end of the degree into a local company
- All the remaining stuff on traditional high schol like physics, math, geometry and whatever else.
Now would everyone be as good as she is?
Certainly not, but the tools are there for anyone that wants to have a go at it.
During my time it meant:
- Knowledge of BASIC (GW, Turbo and Quick), Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++, 80x86 Assembly, dBase III Plus and Clipper
- Databases and their data organization on harddisk
- Digital circuits
- OS design, with experience on MS-DOS/Netware and Xenix
- 3 months trainship at the end of the degree into a local company
- All the remaining stuff on traditional high schol like physics, math, geometry and whatever else.
Now would everyone be as good as she is?
Certainly not, but the tools are there for anyone that wants to have a go at it.