<p>I would really like to take computer science but my high school doesn’t offer it. What should I do?</p>
<p>Take Programming and Intro to CS courses at a local CC…
but since all they really teach are the basics of a programming language…</p>
<p>There are thousands of resources on the internet.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t bother with a local CC. Find some tutorials for basic programming (I recommend [Cprogramming.com</a> - Programming Tutorials: C++ Made Easy and C Made Easy](<a href=“http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html]Cprogramming.com”>C, C++ Programming Tutorials - Cprogramming.com)), and then practice programming problem solving at either Project Euler or usaco.org.</p>
<p>Try Hackety Hack, an intro programming tutorial in Ruby: [Hackety</a> Hack!](<a href=“http://hackety-hack.com/]Hackety”>http://hackety-hack.com/)</p>
<p>Google “Stanford engineering everywhere”.</p>