> He offered three courses.

We had two courses at my school in early post-Wende East Germany ('91 onwards, on Amstrad PC2386 386/20 MHz machines): a beginner's computer course with OS intro (MS-DOS 4.01 and Windows 3.0), office applications, and typing... and a programming course via the GW-BASIC (later QBasic) to Turbo Pascal (much later Delphi) pipeline.