Using History to Teach Computer Science
General June 27th, 2008
I’m going to re-blog Greg Downey’s post about finding a Computing Research Association publication on using history to teach computer science and related fields. It’s a long report (319 pages,) but just reading the table of contents makes me think this is something I should read. Computer Science, Informatics, LIS: they aren’t just studies of technologies and methodologies, algorithms and analysis. They are cultures, evolutions, people, social networks, and are disciplines filled with resumes of triumphs and failures. Their histories are greater than the product of where they currently are. The first paper’s abstract says, “attention to the history of computing might help to make a computer scientist into a better teacher and, on a broader level, might make computer science itself into a better discipline.” I agree.
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