Alfred and I are having a conversation on what is computer science…
And part of the problem, is that I do teach the office products during the first weeks of class. I take it MUCH faster than BCIS (what we call our office applications class). I did Word in a week, Excel in 3 days, etc.
I basically want my students completely comfortable with computers as tools before we start programming.
After we do the tools, and I include the internet, email, searching, etc. with that, we do basic hardware and software. That takes up about 9 weeks of the first semester and we’ve yet to even think about flowcharting in that time.