Computer Science
Computer Science is a competency-based Career & Technical Education program offered at Milford High School & Applied Technology Center. Students who complete Programming Fundamentals are considered CTE Participants by the NH Department of Education; those who go on to complete Java Programming are considered Concentrators. Students are eligible to earn Industry-Recognized Certificates or Credentials by passing Third-Party Exams administered to Concentrators.
As well as the CTE pathway courses, the Computer Science Department offers several electives that are only available to Milford students.
What students are saying...
"I was a former foreign exchange student of yours and took programming classes with you. I know I wasn't your greatest student (language barrier was a bit too much for me at the time) but you did inspire me to go into conputer science and now I'm working in a cool company doing cool big data, and data analysis projects, and had some cool research papers done for my undergrad degree."
~Gonzolo Ruiz-Oriol Sanfrutos
"Mrs. Andrew,
I just wanted to drop a line and say thank you for the awesome classes I got to take in high school because of you. Java Honors, Java AP (Data Structures and Algorithms), Web Design, all great classes.
I've got 8 months left in the Army and since July I've been on top of a mountain in Korea, and will be up here for rest of my "journey" or whatever. I have a lot of free time up here so I figured I'd get back into programming (literally haven't touched it since high school) and wouldn't you know it, your classes really did help a lot!
To give you the short quick version, I began writing a data backup utility in Java. At first it was just a learning exercise but as the weeks passed I kept adding more functionality and refactoring and improving and before I knew it I felt like I had something that other people might even find useful. So I bought a domain for 10 bucks and a raspberry pi v2 and setup a site, coded the whole thing in notepad++ (straight HTML and CSS). It's simple and looks like poo but gets the job done! I still have a long way to go on my little program (and the site) but I've had so much fun working on all this I've decided to pursue a career in development.
Thanks again for the excellent classes..."
~SPC Picard, Alec J.
Testimonial Letter