Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site gloria.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxj!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!rocksanne!sunybcs!gloria!colonel From: colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse Subject: Re: Computer Science in High School Message-ID: <754@gloria.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 13:44:12 EST Article-I.D.: gloria.754 Posted: Fri Dec 28 13:44:12 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Dec-84 03:01:09 EST References: <241@mss.UUCP>, <705@ames.UUCP> <194@uthub.UUCP> Organization: SUNY-Buffalo Confuser Science Lines: 12 Xref: watmath net.college:590 net.cse:289 > > 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 ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel