Can the BBC restage its milestone 'Computer Programme', or should it 'think different'? asks Tony Parkin
In an exciting reminder of its ‘golden era of educational computing’, the BBC has revealed that it is considering a computer literacy programme for the 21st century.
Educational computing in the early 1980s was kickstarted by the BBC Computer Literacy Project with its BBC Micro computer, The Computer Programme and its distinctive owl logo (right). This time around however, the idea seems to be accompanied by a degree of uncertainty that feels very different to the bullish enthusiasm of the original project.
