On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:47:43 +1300 Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as I can recall, the computer at Nelson College was more of a > "status symbol" than something that was really used for educational > purposes. Perhaps the teacher who related that to me was just cynical. I did Applied Maths in Form 7. One of the modules was Computing, so the whole 7th form applied maths class did some BASIC programming on it. Other than that if you showed a special interest you could use it on your own for "fun" It was a bit of a status symbol I guess, you couldn't do any really serious computing. But you don't need to run complex programs to illustrate looping, arrays, variable assignment and other basic computing stuff. It was used as a teaching tool as I said above. And it generated some interest in the subject. Remember this was the 1970's - well before the PC. The Apple ][ blew us away when we saw it demonstrated! > > Nelson seems to have it's fair share of geeks. Another Comp Sci lecturer > at Canterbury, Richard Pascoe, also went there, as did I. Was Dr Boardman in the Comp/Maths department then? He taught the aforesaid Applied Maths class. Very straight, but as good teacher. His sense of humour was very dry, he gave a classmate a mark for putting his name on a test paper once. No comment, just a tick and a "1" for one mark. > When I was > there, we were using BBC machines, plus a handful of Acorn Archimedes > machines (running RISCos) for privileged few. We were taught BASIC in > the 6th form. Do they teach programming at all at High School these days? Dunno -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
