Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!gregbo From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: net.college,net.cse Subject: Re: Should Computer Science be taught at the High School level? Message-ID: <1070@houxm.UUCP> Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 12:27:03 EST Article-I.D.: houxm.1070 Posted: Sun Jan 6 12:27:03 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 03:22:08 EST References: <3967@ucbvax.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.college:614 net.cse:302 > From: cuccia@ucbvax.ARPA (Nick Cuccia) > One problem that had arisen is that there are, to my knowledge, no > books on mathematical logic or descrete math written with a high school > student in mind that is currently in print. The book that we used > had been out of print since 1964; the teacher bought his own copies, > and we were not allowed to take them out of class. I had a pretty good high school mathematics curriculum emphasizing discrete math and logic. The texts used were part of the Unified Modern Mathematics series. I don't remember offhand who wrote them but if there are any Stuy- vesant High School alumni who went through the Unified Modern Mathematics program I'm sure one of them will remember. Various subjects were covered that are applicable to a high school student's training for computer science. Among them were elementary number theory, groups, fields and rings, boolean algebra and set theory. When I was in high school I found it to be very challenging and exciting -- having that mathe- matics helped me to choose computer science as a major in college. -- Baby tie your hair back in a long white bow ... Meet me in the field, behind the dynamo ... Greg Skinner (gregbo) {allegra,cbosgd,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo