[SPG_Active_Members] First computer literacy class?

[Paul McJones]

It should be:

http://www.robertgaskins.com/files/gaskins-gould-cal-snobol4-1972.pdf

(Gaskins has the wrong URL on his web site!)


Paul


On Jan 10, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Lee Courtney wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> 
> The .pdf link in your email appears to be broken? :-(
>  
> Lee Courtney
> Menlo Park, California
> +1-650-704-3934
> From: Paul McJones <paul at mcjones.org>
> To: Ronald Mak <ron.mak at sjsu.edu>; "Robert Garner (@us.ibm.com)" <robgarn at us.ibm.com>; scc_active at computerhistory.org; 1401_all at computerhistory.org; Jim McClure <mcclure at computerhistory.org>; Jon Pearce <jon.pearce at sjsu.edu>; franklin.stan at gmail.com; Ted Kahn <ted at designworlds.com> 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [SPG_Active_Members] First computer literacy class?
> 
> 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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