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Broadening the computer science curriculum

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SIGCSE '97: Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 320 - 324

https://doi.org/10.1145/268084.268206

Published: 01 March 1997 Publication History

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Too often, students in undergraduate computer science programs come to equate computer science with the "nuts and bolts" of the field---programming, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, programming languages and so forth. If we are to attract students to computer science and produce graduates who will excel in the profession, we must broaden our students' perspective on our discipline. In this paper, we examine an initiative that seeks to broaden the undergraduate computer science experience by introducing three new elements into the curriculum: a first-year experience that focuses on the challenges of computer science, a fourth-year experience that focuses on the initial stages of the software design process, and a student portfolio that unifies the existing curriculum, broadens its content, and provides us with a mechanism for assessing the growth of our students' technical and non-technical skills.

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Broadening the computer science curriculum
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
      2. Model curricula

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SIGCSE '97: Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

March 1997

410 pages

ISBN:0897918894

DOI:10.1145/268084

Chairmen:
Curt M. White
Rosary College, River forest, IL
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Carl Erickson
Grand Valley State Univ., Allendale MI
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Bruce Klein
Grand Valley State Univ., Allendale, MI
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Editor:
James E. Miller
Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 29, Issue 1
March 1997
388 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/268085
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