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Huh, I didn't realize computer teaching was still so completely awful, I had assumed that the whole thing of needing to self-teach was just a factor for our particular generation. You're absolutely right that it perpetuates the bias towards people from privileged backgrounds.

As for small world, I shared a desk with hmw26 when we were rising eight, and we were the only two Jewish girls in the year group pretty much the whole way through school, so we go back a long way. I didn't get on with most of her crowd in secondary school, so we weren't as close as teenagers, but I've kept an eye on her rather stellar career and we talk on FB sometimes. And her little sister suffered a spinal cord injury a couple of years before my brother did, so her parents were very supportive to my parents in dealing with that.