A computer can be defined as an electronic machine
used for accepting data and instruction from an input unit and
processes the data in the processing unit and transfers data for our use
through the output unit (Esquire, 2003).
A computer is a machine or an apparatus that manipulates data
according to a list of instructions, whose end product (output) may be
expressible in numerical or logical terms.
DEFINITION OF TEACHING
The term “teacher” is generally used to refer to anybody who
imparts knowledge or instructs another person. But Akpochafo defines a
teacher to be someone who has gone through a level of professional
training and is both certificated and actually teaching in an
institution. From the foregoing definition, the teacher is seen as one
professionally trained and certified, Teaching in a formal sense could
therefore be defined as the process of transferring knowledge or the
activities of educating or instructing with the aim of impacting
knowledge, by one professionally trained and certified by an
institution.
HISTORY OF COMPUTER DEUCATION IN NIGERIA
The introduction of computer education was first mentioned during
Professor Jubril Aminu’s tenure as the Minister of Education.
A national committee on computer education was set up after a
lecture titled “Catch up with the rest of the world”. On the 14th of
September 1987, the committee submitted its report and so computer
entered the educational system. A total of one hundred and sixty
(160) teachers stepped out to take off the study of computer in sixty
(60) selected unity and command secondary schools (Daily Times, 3rd
December, 1999).
Computer science was introduced as a subject in 1987 by the
Federal Government of Nigeria during the 32nd ministerial council
meeting at the National Council on Education. This was also followed by
the inauguration of the National Committee on Computer Education the
same year. The functions of the committee include planning for a
dynamic policy on computer education and literacy in Nigeria as well as
devising clear strategies and terminologies to be used by the Federal
and State Government in introducing computer education. (Nigeria
Tribune, April 11, 1988).