Fair, I’m mostly just curious what high level languages were around at the time given how early this was in the history of programming. A quick search did not turn up helpful results.

Where did he say that about compilers and high level languages? He died before Fortran was released and probably programmed on punch cards or tape.

What do you mean you get ads during in-person lessons? While showing a video to the class?

And likely illegal, but that will also make things very interesting for you for a bit