Teaching Computer Skills For Home-Schooling Parents

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Do you want to teach your child computer skills, but have no idea how to do so

Computer programming is not exactly a trivial thing to teach. Home school parents can usually handle the easier subjects, learning themselves as necessary simultaneously as they teach their child. The challenge in programming comes with there being so much information available online. The internet is a wonderful thing, and it is great to have access to so much info, but sometimes it is overwhelming.

Where to start if you want to provide a solid, basic understanding of computer programming skills to your child Learning a bunch of random facts on programming does not serve much purpose. What your child does need is a solid grasp of principles. Regardless of what direction your child goes, be it engineering, computer science, or something completely different, learning the principles of breaking down a problem into manageable pieces and creating those pieces (which is pretty much what programming is), will serve him or her quite well in the future.

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Beginners Guide to Computer Languages

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Just as you don’t need to be a mechanic to know how to drive, modern computers
have become so user friendly that you don’t really have to know how they work in
order to operate them. Nevertheless, if you’re curious, or are interested in becoming
a computer professional, a basic understanding of what makes computers tick
(what’s happening under the hood) can be quite valuable.

The popular expression is that computers use only two words, 0 and 1. While this
may or may not be true, computers do not speak English or French, and certainly do
not read minds. The job of a computer programmer is to tell the computer what it
should do. The job of a computer language is to create a framework in which people
(i.e. users or programmers) and computers can communicate. Two such languages
are Qbasic and Visual basic.

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