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?"

Comments

Homeschool?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you a Republican or something?

Re:Homeschool?

[MindlessAutomata]

I didn't realize Republicans had the monopoly on higher-quality education.

Re:Homeschool?

[icebraining]

70% of homeschooled children are in very religious families. Assuming that a homeschooler is republican isn't absurd.

Re:You don't understand what CS is

[NotQuiteReal]

Silly - CS means Creation Science.

You know, create documents, spreadsheets, humans, fake fossil history - it's all Creation, but with Science behind it!

Re:You don't understand what CS is

[lahvak]

I don't know, writing a good word processor would certainly require a good knowledge of Computer Science. In fact, it seems to be so hard that nobody has managed to do it well so far.

Re:You don't understand what CS is

[wozzinator]

I refuse to believe that you have a B.S. let alone an M.S. in Computer Science if you think the following should be apart of any CS curriculum in high school: word processing, spreadsheets, intro to operating systems.

(The intro to OS is in there because I'm assuming that you mean how to use Windows XP or Windows 7 and not threading, file systems, page tables, virtual memory, etc.)