The Essence of the Computer Science student
October 3, 2008The essence ofcomputer science is programming (at least in my opinion, though a lot of
computer scientists make rather poor programmers) so getting K-6 students to
learn even some simple programming language is probably a start. Somehow
one has to convey the concept that computers are there to obey your orders,
and you can tell them to do just about anything (that involves manipulating
symbols like text or numbers). I am not sure whether the actual way
computers are put together would be a good subject, but students are bound
to have questions so one should perhaps have them learn the following
concepts too:


