[SPG_Active_Members] First computer literacy class?

[Dave Redell]

That was Seymour Papert's Logo program. See for example:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_graphics

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Elizabeth Feinler <feinler at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Do any of you remember the "turtle" at MIT AI lab where children under
> school age learned to program the turtle to move in various directions by
> choosing the right cards with signs on them and putting them in the proper
> order.  This was being done in the early 70s.  I've forgotten who led the
> work but could probably dig it  out.  The idea was that kids could program
> computers before they even knew how to read.  That took "literacy" to a new
> level.  The kids loved it and could make the turtle do all kinds of stunts.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jake
> On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Dave Redell wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Ronald Mak <ron.mak at sjsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> **
>> Folks,
>>
>> Computer Science Prof. Stan Franklin at the University of Memphis, along
>> with his colleagues, taught a computer literacy class in Spring 1982.
>>
> ...
>
> His question that he posed to me, and which I'm passing on to all of you,
>> is whether this was the very first university computer literacy course. I
>> suspect not, but I'm sure you all have opinions. Please tell Stan (
>> franklin.stan at gmail.com) what you think and share with the rest of us!
>>
>> -- Ron
>>
>
> 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.
>
> Dave
>
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