Should I take another year of Spanish or Intro to Computer Science senior year?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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So I’m in quite a sticky situation here. So I took Spanish 2 honors during my sophomore year, which is Spanish 2 and 3 in one year. During junior year, I didn’t have the room and had to drop Spanish. When I moved, the new school required that all students do gym and health every semester, so that eliminated my chances of doing Spanish. Now, I want to do a third year of Spanish senior year so that I can get that in. However, one of my bigger issues is that I also want to take Intro to Computer Science because that is what I am considering majoring in during college. The only course I have done with computers is multimedia applications.

So, what should I do? Should I take a third year of Spanish so I can fill all my bases or Intro to Computer Science so that if I don’t like Computer Science, I won’t be upset later in college?

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Consider taking the next level of Spanish in school (ask the Spanish teachers what the appropriate level is for you, since what you learned in your old school may not align exactly with the new school’s courses), but going through the course materials of http://cs10.org/ on your own to gauge your interest in computer science.

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(Crap! Just realized I put this in the college admissions section and not high school life section. I apologize, but I can’t move this to the respective category…)

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Assuming you can’t take both, take Spanish 3 (also called 5-6), and use “hour of code” and other references (such as what UCBalumnus gave you) to test CS. You could also take a basic intro to CS summer class either at your school or at the local CC.