{"id":1270,"date":"2006-09-11T22:48:33","date_gmt":"2006-09-11T22:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/more-on-what-is\/"},"modified":"2006-09-11T22:48:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-11T22:48:33","slug":"more-on-what-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/more-on-what-is\/","title":{"rendered":"More on What is Computer Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred and I are having a conversation on what is computer science&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : High School Computer Science - What's it all about?\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/alfredth\/archive\/2006\/09\/11\/whats_it_all_about.aspx\">Computer Science Teacher &#8211; Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : High School Computer Science &#8211; What&#8217;s it all about?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I basically want my students completely comfortable with computers as tools before we start programming.  <\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;ve yet to even think about flowcharting in that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred and I are having a conversation on what is computer science&#8230; Computer Science Teacher &#8211; Thoughts and Information from Alfred Thompson : High School Computer Science &#8211; What&#8217;s it all about? And part of the problem, is that I do teach the office products during the first weeks of class. I take it MUCH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}