I really wish every school curriculum made a basic programming class mandatory. At worst, it would give everyone somewhat of an idea of how computers work.

They've started teaching programming in primary schools in the UK which is pretty cool, they mostly use scratch with raspberry pi and python for the older classes.

Yeah what @Wozzah365 said, I left school 5 years ago in the UK and even then our compulsory IT classes contained a module on Python, gave everybody at least some idea of how the world works. It was rather funny watching the blonde tanned popular girls work out how to use a for loop hahahahaha

Some school boards in Canada are starting to make it mandatory, so it's happening.

@magis damn I left school 5 years ago and didn't get to use python :(. Closest I got was using MS Publisher to make a website. Like wtf?! Why publisher of all things??

@Wozza365 I didn't realise you could make a website in publisher! Hahaha

@magis yeah, but it looks awful and only works in IE -_- they never thought to teach us something semi useful like doing it in HTML. Would have been far better.