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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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:Homeschool?

[RockClimbingFool]

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.

Wow, it sounds like you grew up on on a Big Love compound. Lots of diversity of opinion I am sure.

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.)