Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!west From: west@utcsrgv.UUCP (Thomas L. West) Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse Subject: Re: Should Computer Science be taught at the High School level? Message-ID: <598@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 17:30:44 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.598 Posted: Mon Dec 17 17:30:44 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 17-Dec-84 17:44:06 EST References: <241@mss.UUCP> <705@ames.UUCP> Reply-To: west@utcsrgv.UUCP (Thomas L. West) Distribution: net Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 14 Summary: As for what should be taught in high school computer programming classes, my 1st year prof who had to take a bunch of hacker types and turn us to the path of structured programming had this to say in response to our questions. "What do I think should be taught in high school? hm.. Typing." He figured that far more bad habits than good were introduced in high school, and that untraining us was far harder than starting with a fresh class of computer illiterates. Tom West { allegra cornell decvax ihnp4 linus utzoo }!utcsrgv!west