Elements of German Informatics Curricula
Elements of German Informatics Curricula
Elements of German Informatics Curricula
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Questions (2/4)<br />
Four Questions<br />
Historical Remarks<br />
Problems – Solutions<br />
Summary – Bibliography<br />
The Beginning<br />
Research in Didactics in <strong>Informatics</strong><br />
What to teach in <strong>Informatics</strong>?<br />
in the 60th:<br />
Boolean Algebra, von Neumann Principle<br />
construction <strong>of</strong> hardware elements (adder, coder, . . . )<br />
in the 70th:<br />
algorithms and data structures<br />
problem solving by »stepwise refinement« [Wirth 1971]<br />
»’go to’ considered harmful« [Dijkstra 1968]<br />
in the 80th:<br />
standard algorithms (searching and sorting) [Knuth 1973]<br />
some nonprocedural languages were tested<br />
»A potporri <strong>of</strong> some well known elements does not<br />
constitute a curriculum« cf. [Nievergelt 1991]<br />
L. Humbert <strong>Informatics</strong> <strong>Curricula</strong>
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