Practical Homeschooling Magazine has announced its 2012 reader awards, and again Computer Science Pure and Simple came in first in the computer science category. The awards were announced in the September/October edition of the magazine. Computer Science Pure and Simple has come in first place in this category since the computer science category was created in 2010. Award winners are chosen by readers only.

Computer Science Pure and Simple is MotherboardBooks.com’s popular curriculum for middle and high schoolers introducing them to website and game programming and Excel and Word usage. Computer Science Pure and Simple and its sister curriculum, Logo Adventures for younger kids, both use a fun software tool, MicroWorlds, that provides instant and colorful feedback for programming projects.