A Computing Curriculum for Technical High Schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

AbstractTechnical high schools provide graduates with the practical skills to enter directly into the job market. Computer education is very important for these graduates. To prepare the school graduates for the twenty first century, the technical high schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia made computer education a separate course in all three years of technical high schools. This will give students experience with the computer tools that will be an inevitable part of their lives and work. The purpose of this paper is to describe a curriculum for technical high schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The paper also includes a justification for the proposed courses and conditions for successful implementation of the proposed curriculum