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From abacus to microchip -- how a computer functions -- a workshop for a German children's museum.

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The Kinder-Akademie Fulda, a children's museum in Germany, invited the project team to teach a workshop on computers for 9 to 13-year-olds. We entitled the workshop "From Abacus to Microchip, How a Computer Functions." The topics covered were historical number systems and computing machines, binary numbers, the history of computer programming and data storage, how a printer operates, flowcharts, and how to write a simple program in C++. The workshop was entirely planned and taught in German by the project team.

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  • 99A014I
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  • 1999
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  • 1999-01-01
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  • Darmstadt
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