Anne Webster
ABSTRACT
LAST YEAR, the Computing Planning Task Force of the University of Delaware recommended that the University adopt a goal for its 18,000 students. They proposed that “60 percent of students should have some familiarity with computers, 20 percent should make significant use of them, [and] 20 percent should be fully conversant with all aspects of computing.”1 At about the same time the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs directed Academic Computing Services to develop a program to promote computing awareness among the faculty. In addition, an anonymous grant to the Humanities Faculty for the purchase of microcomputers sparked new interest in computing among this group.
This paper describes the on-going development of the “Computing: Taking the First Byte” program, a series of seminars and workshops for faculty in fields that are not historically associated with computing.
Index Terms
- Computing: Taking the first byte
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