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From: annab@azure.UUCP (Anna Beaver)
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Subject: Re: Should Computer Science be taught at the High School level?
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Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 20:22:56 EST
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> 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