I should think that to be comuter literate one should at least know binary arithmetic, what a Turing machine does, how to turn algebraic equations into lines of code, how to use a logic statement to make a decision, and these days, HTML and XML. We should all know how these tools flow through silicon to produce what we see on the screens of our computers and how far we can trust what we see and why. It also wouldn't hurt to teach kids how DNA works like a Turning machine to manufacture all the protiens and other chemicals that make up the bodies of all life on Earth.
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I should think that to be comuter literate one should at least know binary arithmetic, what a Turing machine does, how to turn algebraic equations into lines of code, how to use a logic statement to make a decision, and these days, HTML and XML. We should all know how these tools flow through silicon to produce what we see on the screens of our computers and how far we can trust what we see and why. It also wouldn't hurt to teach kids how DNA works like a Turning machine to manufacture all the protiens and other chemicals that make up the bodies of all life on Earth.