I just single-handedly started my high school's very first computer club (no it wasn't that hard but I still feel awesome for doing it). The goal of the club is basically to make people much more knowledgeable with computers, and once they have that knowledge, they can choose to either continue attending the meetings or not, because from then on we will be moving into actual programming and design. I have a general idea of the direction in which the club will go, however I'd like your feedback on it.
For starters, we'll begin with something simple: how to efficiently use programs like Word and PowerPoint, teaching everything from keyboard shortcuts to customizing how the document looks. From there we'll move into more advanced areas such as using our school's "EZ Access" tool to download files from your school folder to your home computer, and tips and tricks for sharing files via email using filehosting sites or the like. After that, people can either choose to continue attending meetings or not, because we'll then move into the very basics of anything related to scripting, web design (yes I am fully aware that HTML is not a scripting language, hence why I said "anything related to scripting). We'll teach HTML, JavaScript, PHP, CSS, etc., and we'll eventually move into the big project I have planned which is for our computer club to make, from scratch, a forum for ourselves. We will, of course, eventually traverse into more difficult territory, such as C languages and Java.
Any suggestions? Languages to add? Languages to remove? Other materials in general to add/remove? I'm not saying that I'll actually use your suggestions but I will certainly consider them. I will be holding a short question and answer session at the end of our first meeting for people to ask questions about the materials or to suggest/inquire about materials we should cover. We will also be covering graphic design and basic hardware.
Thoughts?
