<p>One other question: is second semester English writing offered at your community college? If so, that may well be worth taking (instead of Visual BASIC if you need to drop a course to make room for it). Most universities require a year of English writing courses.</p>
<p>If you want to preview an introductory computer science course at a university, you can check out Berkeley CS 61A here (note that the textbooks and language interpreters are free):</p>
<p>Spring 2011 (using Scheme): [CS</a> 61A Home Page](<a href=“http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/sp11/]CS”>CS 61A Home Page)
Fall 2011 (using Python): [CS</a> 61A: The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs](<a href=“http://61a-fa11.appspot.com/]CS”>http://61a-fa11.appspot.com/)</p>