No subject

classroom working on the school server!!) it seems to be more the computer side
of Business Studies than anything to do with the computers themselves. I
mentioned Alan Turing to an IT teacher once and they didn't bat an eyelid that
it was a name they'd heard or should have heard!

Mind you, there must have been a fairly short period of proper IT education.
Back when I was doing Computer Studies (as it was called) O Level - none of
this new fangled GCSE stuff ;) - the teachers were learning only about a week
ahead of what they were teaching. There were a couple of us in the class that
knew far more on the practical side of things (not so much the history) and
kept being roped in to help out since we'd done the work and they couldn't
provide anything more because they hadn't learnt it yet! The fact that
initially we only had one CBM Pet, and by the time I left that thad only grown
to 2 CBM Pets and 3 BBC Micros (2 Mod A and one Mod B iirc) didn't help much,
although coding on paper first did add some discipline. Thankfully they were
pretty short programs, although my project failed to compile because I couldn't
load it as the same time as the compiler in my 48k Spectrum - not that it
needed to thankfully.

I often say that if it wasn't for Linux I would no longer have any interest in
computers. There's a massive amount of potential in education to make use of
the flexibility and openness of Linux.

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