This curriculum guide for computer science was developed to establish statewide curriculum standards for the Louisiana Competency-based Education Program. It consists of: (1) a rationale for and overview of the secondary school mathematics program; (2) a list of five suggestions for using the guide; (3) programming, debugging, and documentation standards; (4) a list of six course goals; and (5) a curriculum outline which contains performance objectives for five topic areas (computer literacy, algorithm construction and flowcharting, steps in writing a program, programming procedures, and optional advanced topics); (6) lists of activities arranged by major topic area; and (7) a list of additional suggested activities. A short bibliography, a list of supplementary materials, and brief comments on evaluative techniques in computer science are also provided. (JN)