Most Practical CS class for HS application?

[Contraba55]

Hi! I'm a college student (not a CS major), and I've got room in my schedule next semester to pick up a CS class, which I figure is the first step to being able to innovate anything new and useful for either an AHK script or HS in general.
What (intro level) class/language would you take, if anything?
Thanks!

[BadBoyBill]

If you want to learn ahk, I would just read the manual and the getting started docs, its very easy to learn.

[Contraba55]

Alright mate, you'd know best.

[SophT]

intro to programming - programming basics - computer logic - scripting (BASIC)

anything like that where you're learning a high(er) level abstract 'programming'. Probably most importantly logic

if/else, for each, do while, gosub, etc...

you don't really need to worry about malloc and inits and stuff. Web stuff probably won't help except the logic concepts will carry over if you're doing something dynamic (php, asp, etc...)

OR

take a flash course - you'll still learn loops and stuff, but you'll be able to make great themes, and your university probably has a STEEP discount on adobe creative suite.

[Lashek]

I agree with SophT on this. :)

Any entry-level class will teach you the basics of logic and scripting. All other languages tend to follow suit (IE: Format of C#, C++, C, VB, etc) with the exception of Syntax.

Once you get the general flow of a program down, it's pretty easy to pickup other languages. Just need to learn new libraries and new syntax.

However, Variable Variables are evil (I'm looking at you, PHP!)