Ask Slashdot: Good Homeschool Curriculum For CS?? 364
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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?"
Re:MIT Open CourseWare (Score:2, Funny)
The beauty of home schooling is that the curriculum can meet the needs of the student, not the lowest common denominator.
When you are home schooling just two kids, one of them will ALWAYS be the lowest common denominator. One of them will also always be below the class average in grades, and below the class average in IQ.
Much better to be batch-schooled, your odds of being above average are better.
Re:Forget about it (Score:5, Funny)
The most important thing is to get him laid. Take him to european countries for as many months as you can legally stay for, and force him to approach girls and women again and again.
So the plan is if he gets rejected often enough, he'll just spontaneously turn into a computer programmer???
Re:You don't understand what CS is (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dietel & Dietel (Score:4, Funny)
C is C, HTML is HTML, MS Office is MS Office and small furry creatures from alpha centauri make great soup if you put them in the blender for long enough.
Blender: Now THAT needs a good tutorial!