Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 GARFIELD 20/11/84; site garfield.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!garfield!andrew From: andrew@garfield.UUCP (Andrew Draskoy) Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse Subject: Re: Should Computer Science be taught at the High School level? Message-ID: <2237@garfield.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 00:38:16 EST Article-I.D.: garfield.2237 Posted: Wed Dec 19 00:38:16 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 01:51:42 EST References: <241@mss.UUCP> <705@ames.UUCP> <82@uwvax.UUCP> Reply-To: andrew@garfield.UUCP (Andrew Draskoy) Distribution: net Organization: Memorial U. of Nfld. C.S. Dept., St. John's Lines: 24 Who is going to teach the courses? Around here, the teachers mostly learned what they knew from a two-week course on BASIC offered to teachers during the summer. Obviously some of them would know more, but how many? Rather than teaching Computer Science per se, I think a better background in logic is needed. I seem to recall having being taught about the basic boolean operations, minterms, k-maps, etc. in at least three beginning or near-beginning C.S. courses. In addition, the main student-killer course here is the discrete structures course, in which it has become apparent that most students don't have an adequate familiarity with proofs. A little bit of logic would perhaps set students into the right "frame-of-mind" for doing Computer Science later. ----- Andrew Draskoy {akgua,allegra,ihnp4,utcsrgv}!garfield!andrew The opinions expressed above may not represent those of the author after he has had some sleep. -- Andrew Draskoy {akgua,allegra,ihnp4,utcsrgv}!garfield!andrew The opinions expressed above may not represent those of the author after he has had some sleep.