This competency-based data processing curriculum guide consists of a total of 65 curriculum worksheets dealing with data entry, computer operations, and computer programing. Provided in each worksheet are the following materials: a duty title, a task description, a pretest, references and resources, student learning activities, teacher activities, necessary tools/equipment, conditions necessary for completing each task, evaluation criteria, and a posttest. Representative data entry tasks covered include manipulating various knobs, switches, keys, and levers; analyzing job descriptions; assessing device malfunctions; analyzing data fields and written information in technical manuals; writing job information; and placing media in storage areas. Various computer operations tasks are addressed, including arranging a group of jobs, reading and analyzing operating instructions, manipulating switches and keys, analyzing console-produced messages and written descriptions in technical manuals, logging in information, comparing computer-produced output to job description samples, and interpreting device and system performance. Among those computer programing tasks examined in the guide are the following: analyzing program requests, program specifications, and written descriptions; writing language statements; reviewing, keying, and writing source statements; analyzing output data and error notation; writing operating instructions; and designing data. (MN)