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Paper Computer in Namibia

So how do we teach students how to program, if we have schools in Namibia that do not even have electricity, never mind a computer lab or Internet connectivity?

Easy – we create a computer that doesn’t need all that. One you can use anywhere – and which is portable and easy to use as a sheet of paper.


Based on a 30 year old concept of a “paper computer” developed by Wolfgang Back and Ulrich Rohde it consists of really nothing more than a sheet of paper that contains both the program as well as a number of data registers, and requires as additional tools only a pen or pencil (even a twig will do) and some matches that will be used to represent the contents of the data registers.



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Sources:
ComputerClub 2 on WDR http://www.cczwei.de/https://www.youtube.com/computerclubzwei
Paper Computer in PDF http://edunet-namibia.org/wp-content/uploads/delightful-downloads/2013/05/KnowHow-Computer.pdf

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