Abstract
The issue of Computer Science entering schools first appeared during the ’60s. The first academic Computer Science Department was founded during this decade at Purdue University and was followed by a second one at Stanford University. As far as the other levels of educational systems are concerned the wide introduction of computers into schools started during the ’80s. This paper refers to a comparative small scale qualitative research that took place between two countries: Greece and Indonesia. It compares Greek and Indonesian Computer Science teachers’ views on whether the Computer Science (or ICT or Computing or Informatics) course improves students’ lives and could in general assist in teaching. Both Greece and Indonesia have included the course of Information and Communication(s) Technologies (ICT) in the curricula of their primary and secondary education levels. Data were collected through interviews (semi-structured and e-mail ones). We interviewed eleven (11) Greek and twenty (20) Indonesian Computer Science (or ICT or Computing or Informatics) teachers. For each country we carefully studied participants’ answers, we categorized and analyzed them in order to obtain reliable results. Then we compared the two countries’ results so as to find similarities and differences between them. After this comparison we drew the conclusion that the points of view of teachers coming from the two aforementioned countries are almost the same. Participants declared that they see teaching as a positive procedure and that they also consider ICT (or Computer Science or Computing or Informatics) course as important for their pupils’/students’ lives.
 
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Highlights
During the 1960s Computer Science started emerging as a distinguished science and the term was first introduced by George Forsythe
It must be bewildering to most mathematicians and engineers...In spite of the diversity of the applications, the methods of attacking the difficult problems with computers show a great unity, and the name of Computer Sciences is being attached to the discipline as it emerges” (Forsythe, 1961, p. 177, in Knuth, 1972, p. 722)
The purpose of the case study is to gain an in-depth understanding of the phenomenon in a real-world context (Crowe et al, 2011). This small-scale study was based on interviews with Greek and Indonesian Information and Communication(s) Technologies (ICT)/Computer science/Computing/Informatics teachers, with a view of enquiring about their perspectives and feelings on teaching and whether teaching especially IT/Computing helps and enforces pupils/students in their daily life and in their life in general
Summary
Knuth notes about him that in 1961 he integrated the term CS in his paper entitled ‘Engineering Students Must Learn both Computing and Mathematics’ (Forsythe, 1961). It must be bewildering to most mathematicians and engineers...In spite of the diversity of the applications, the methods of attacking the difficult problems with computers show a great unity, and the name of Computer Sciences is being attached to the discipline as it emerges” At the same year the first Ph.D. in Computer Science was awarded to Richard Wexelblat from University of Pennsylvania (https://www.cis.upenn.edu/history/, 09.04.2020) and in University of Belgrade was composed a robotic hand
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