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Chapter 2
Figure 2: The Dutch educational system. The shaded blocks represent those grades in which the students can choose CS
2.2 The First Decade of Computer Science in Dutch Secondary Education
In the first part of this chapter, we describe the introduction of CS as an elective subject in the higher grades of pre-university and senior secondary education in the Netherlands.
2.2.1 The birth of Computer Science Education in the Netherlands
Before CS was introduced in the higher grades of the secondary education in 1998, only a few schools offered some form of CS education, and in those cases, it was organized by teachers on an individual basis. Only since the Course Developer Group was assigned the task of developing a curriculum for a CS course to be taught in grades ten and higher (Hacquebard et al., 1995), has structural attention been paid to CS in secondary education.
