When was the first computer course offered in a US high school? I took
a computer class in high school, in Kingston NY, in the Fall of 1956. 
IBM Kingston donated the instructor.

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 07 Dec 2005 09:57 PST

Assuming there is no earlier record, the computer courses offered by
Watson Laboratory in 1947 appears to be the earliest reference of a
high school computer course

?In 1947, the famous "Watson Laboratory Three-Week Course on
Computing", taught by Eric Hankam of the Laboratory staff, was
started. It was subsequently attended by about 1,600 people from over
20 countries. The course was also offered to high school mathematics
and science teachers and to high school students in the New York
metropolitan area.?

The Watson Laboratory Three-Week Course on Computing
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/course.html

If you are merely seeking to find out if your class was the earliest
this certainly seems to have refuted that notion. Let me know if this
suffices as an answer.

Tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Question by marty1940-ga on 31 Dec 2005 05:49 PST

Sorry about my delay answering.  I didn't know there was a comment or
question until today.  I thought Google would inform me when a comment
was entered.  They didn't.  I found the Dec 31,2005 Google email in my
AOL Spam folder.

The point of my question is determining when the first computer course
was offered in a US high school, not when a computer course was
offered to high school students, somewhere other than in high school.

I meant a course covering binary math, a programmable digital
computer, with a user interface, I/O, and mass storage.  I had no
idea, at the time, how early in the "computer revolution" my 1956 hs
computer class was.  FYI IBM Kingston, NY manufactured the SAGE (Semi
Automated Ground Environment) football field size, vacuum tube based,
computer system for Air Defense system for defense against manned
bomber attacks.  I was expecting a quick reply saying my hs had a
computer class in 1952, or something like that.

Thanks for your interest in my question and have a Happy New Year.
Marty1940

This is a great question.  However, without being too picky, do you
mean a computer as something with a CPU ond an OS of some sort?  A
personal computer, or ?