[SPG_Active_Members] First computer literacy class?

[Paul McJones]

On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Dave Redell wrote:

> In 1971, Laura Gould at UC Berkeley won the University's Distinguished Teaching Award for teaching a course in the new Computer Science Department entitled Computers in the Humanities. The basic approach was for humanities students to learn about non-numeric applications of computers by writing small programs in Snobol. Some of their course work was done on teletypes connected to UCB's experimental Cal-TSS timesharing system.

Laura and her colleague Robert Gaskins wrote a text for the course:

Robert Gaskins and Laura L. Gould.
Snobol4: A Computer Programming Language for the Humanities.
University of California, Berkeley, 1972 (188 pages). 
http://www.robertgaskins.com/files/gaskins-gould-cal-snobol4-1972-IMAGE.pdf

As an interesting sidelight, Gaskins went on to design PowerPoint.


Paul
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