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A computer club is an organization that meets regularly to build, converse about, and assist others with computers. They emerged in popularity in the late 1970s with the rise of the personal computer. Especially prior to the emergence of the world wide web, obtaining technical assistance with computers was often onerous, while computer clubs would gladly provide free technical support. An organization (U.S. spelling) or organisation (U.K. spelling) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. ... The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ... Graphic representation of the World Wide Web around Wikipedia The World Wide Web (WWW, W3, or simply Web) is an information space in which the items of interest, referred to as resources, are identified by global identifiers called Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). ... Technical support (also tech support) is a range of services providing assistance with computer hardware, software, or other electronic or mechanical goods. ...


Modern high-school computer clubs often compete in programming competitions and run a club website; they may also help school faculty and students with new technology (not just personal computers). Wikibooks has more about this subject: Computer programming Computer programming (often simply programming) is the craft of implementing one or more interrelated abstract algorithms using a particular programming language to produce a concrete computer program. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


List of computer clubs

The first meeting of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club was held in Silicon Valley. ... The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is one of the biggest and most influental hacker organisations. ... A Linux User Group (LUG) is a private, generally non-profit or not-for-profit organization that provides support and/or education for Linux users, particularly for inexperienced users. ... The Nordic University Computer Club (NUCC) is a loose umbrella organization consisting of the computer clubs at the different Nordic universities. ... The Computer Club of Western Michigan University is a registered student organization at Western Michigan University. ... Computer Club is an activity held by Haileybury_College,_Melbourne. ...

External links

  • GEECS for Electronics Engineering Computers and Science (NMH high school)
  • Greenville (PA) High School Computer Club
  • Computer Club Napoli
  • Oxford Academy Computer Club
  • DMOZ listing of high-school programming competitions

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Computer Clubhouse (284 words)
The Computer Clubhouse provides a creative and safe after-school learning environment where young people from under-served communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.
The goal of the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network is to proliferate the highly successful Clubhouse learning approach and establish it as a replicable model for technology learning.
The Intel Computer Clubhouse is a project of Boston's Museum of Science in collaboration with the MIT Media Laboratory.
Homebrew Computer Club - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (673 words)
The Homebrew Computer Club was an early computer hobbyist club in Silicon Valley, which met (under that name) from March 1975 to roughly 1977.
The first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club was held in March 1975 in Gordon French's garage in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California.
The Homebrew Computer Club's newsletter was one of the most influential forces in the formation of the culture of Silicon Valley.
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