In world terms, Australia moved into the educational computing, both at the Higher Education and School levels, very early. This paper looks at how university subjects, and later how whole courses in computing evolved in Australia and how these had very little effect on the later use of computers in schools. We briefly examine how computers were first used in schools, and the influences that put them there and decided how they could be used. We relate an established a model of the growth of academic subjects to the emergence of the discipline area of computing, and in particular, to the Victorian Year 12 Computer Science subject.
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