Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS??

dingo_kinznerhook writes "I grew up in a homeschooling family, and was homeschooled through high school. ( I went on to get a B.S. and M.S. in computer science; my mom has programming experience and holds bachelor's degrees in physics and math — she's pretty qualified to teach.) Mom is still homeschooling my younger brother and sister and is looking for a good computer science curriculum that covers word processing, spreadsheets, databases, intro to programming, intro to operating systems, etc. Does the Slashdot readership know of a high school computer science curriculum suitable for homeschooling that covers these topics?"

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Re:Dietel & Dietel

[Abreu]

However, this text teaches has nothing on creationism or the genealogy of the hebrews, and therefore it's useless for the homeschooling crowd.

Re:Homeschool?

[LanMan04]

I homeschooled my kids and they have a larger and more diverse circle of friends than you can possibly imagine....My daughter's 16th birthday party had more than 70 kids and 30 adults on the guest list - and these really are close friends who she has spent more quality time with growing up than anything you get out in the school yard between classes.

You must go to a really big fundamentalist church!

For every homeschooling parent who is keeping their kids in the basement, I'll show you 10 school kids who are wasting their lives and potential without any help from their parents at all.

Or you could have the best of both world...have your kid in school AND help them reach their potential.