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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: Computer Science in High School
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> > English majors would best be served learning word processing and things like
> > the Writer's Work Bench.  But they need more.
> 
> No more than they previously needed courses in typing and bookbinding.
> This notion of universal computer literacy is receiving rather more
> support than it deserves.

I agree.  If computers are going to replace books, we should be teaching not
prose style but computer graphics.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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