Career
Targ founded a number of programs to study the teaching of computer literacy, including programs in the Palo Alto Unified School District, as well as the Institute of Microcomputing in Education at Stanford University. Her educational techniques included the creation of peer tutoring systems whereby a student, trained by peers in a basic course in computer programming, would then tutor the next students. In the early 1980s, she created and led a programs sponsored by Stanford University in which elementary school teachers were taught the basics of programming by high school students.
One focus of her work was bringing computer literacy to girls, senior citizens, and other groups that were underrepresented in computing.
She coauthored the book Ready, run, fun: International Business Machines Corporation Personal Computer edition with Jeff Levinsky. She spoke seven languages fluently and was a teacher, registered nurse and eventually a physician.
After living in several cities in various parts of the United States, in 1948, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York, where Regina worked as an elementary school teacher and nurse Targ lived in Palo Alto, California, receiving a Masters degree in education from the College of Notre Dame in Belmont.
Targ died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 60 in 1998.
