Name Neal Golden | ||
Brother Neal Golden, S.C., Ph.D., is a Brother of the Sacred Heart who teaches at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here he chairs the computer science department. In addition to teaching mathematics and computer science, he also moderates the academic games team, and the computer programming team. Brother Neal holds a PhD in mathematics and has authored several books on programming.
Biography
Brother Neal Golden is founder, director and president of the Academic Games Leagues of America, president of the Greater New Orleans Teacher of Mathematics and Chair of the Technology Committee of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Golden, chair of the Department of Computer Science at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans, Golden has a long and very distinguished career in teaching.
Before earning his Ph.D. in mathematics, he designed and taught the first high school course for credit in computer science in the state of Louisiana. In 1975 he wrote the first high school computer programming textbook in the United States and has authored and co-authored four additional computer and mathematics textbooks. Golden has been chair of the Louisiana Computer Literacy Committee and was a charter member of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the National Research Council in Washington, D.C.
During his career as a Brother of the Sacred Heart, Golden has been recognized with numerous awards for excellence in teaching.
In 1966 Brother Neal became the first teacher in Louisiana to teach a high school computer course for credit. Since 1969 he has been Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and then Chair of Computer Science at Brother Martin High School, New Orleans. In 1975 he was the author of Computer Programming in the BASIC Language (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (2nd edition 1981, 3rd edition 1987). He also wrote Computer Literacy with an Introduction to BASIC Programming (1985, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) and Computer Programming in the Pascal Language (1988, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich). He was Chair of the NCTM Technology Committee in 1986-7 and a charter member of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the National Research Council. (1985–88).
In 1967 Brother Neal formed the New Orleans Equations League following the first academic games tournament in New Orleans. The league eventually expanded to include public and private schools in the Orleans, Jefferson, and St. Bernard parishes.
In 2010 Brother Neal was featured in a Times Picayune article regarding his tenure at Brother Martin, the history of computer science education in New Orleans, and a time line of his career.