Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site azure.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!teklds!azure!annab From: annab@azure.UUCP (Anna Beaver) Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse Subject: Re: Should Computer Science be taught at the High School level? Message-ID: <31@azure.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 20:22:56 EST Article-I.D.: azure.31 Posted: Thu Dec 20 20:22:56 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 05:43:02 EST References: <241@mss.UUCP> <705@ames.UUCP> <44@rti-sel.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 14 > I see no reason not to teach children to use computers as soon as they > can read. Anybody vote for 2nd grade. That's a good reading level to start. > Teach something like LOGO. It is simple, it teaches logical thinking, and > it is fun to draw pictures and will hold a childs interest. > > Randy Buckland > Research Triangle Institute My son Kevin was only 4 and learned to type in simple commands, such as run, dimentional commands for games... He was quite exited over doing the simple things he could understand, having already learned the alphabet. A Beaver@Tektronix