M. S. Olivier. “Catching the bug: pupils and punched cards in South Africa in the late 1970s”. In: Reflections on the History of Computers in Education — Early Use of Computers and Teaching about Computing in Schools. Ed. by A. Tatnall and B. Davey. Vol. 424. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, 2014, pp. 291–301
This paper describes my memories as one of the pupils taking computer studies in South Africa in the late 1970s, when such programs were still uncommon. The differences between how the subject was approached back then and current approaches are not only due to technological developments; the 1970s curriculum reflects a fundamentally different approach.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-55119-2_19
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author={Martin S Olivier},
title={Catching the bug: pupils and punched cards in {South
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booktitle={Reflections on the History of Computers in Education
--- Early Use of Computers and Teaching about Computing in
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series={IFIP Advances in Information and Communication
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volume={424},
editor={Arthur Tatnall and Bill Davey},
year={2014},
publisher={Springer},
pages={291--301} )
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