<p>Most EE curriculums will have one or two classes involving programming and at least one involving electromagnetic fields. I wouldn’t get discouraged by your high school performance; maybe you happened to have a bad teacher in programming and/or used an obsolete programming language anyway. Plus by the time you take magnetic fields you’ll have completed two years of math and physics, which may help you better understand electromagnetics (which involve a lot of multivariable/vector calculus).</p>