hubey@pilot.njin.net (Hubey) (11/27/89)
Hello Quite recently--about a year ago--either in one of the ACM journals or the IEEE Computer Society journals there was a very nice and long article on the CS Curriculum recommendations. This particular article had a nice two-page spread in the form of a table where the subareas of CS as a discipline was listed vertically and horizontally there were columns which listed the theory, abstraction, and design elements comprising theses subareas. I have spent days looking through my journals but can't find it. Can anyone PLEASE help ?????? (It is not the January 89 issue of CACM.) Thank you all.. mark -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- hubey@pilot.njin.net | hubey@apollo.montclair.edu | ...!rutgers!njin!hubey -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
rsc@altair.uucp (R. S. Cunningham) (11/30/89)
With respect to the questions: > Quite recently--about a year ago--either in one of the ACM journals or > the IEEE Computer Society journals there was a very nice and long > article on the CS Curriculum recommendations. > > This particular article had a nice two-page spread in the form of > a table where the subareas of CS as a discipline was listed vertically > and horizontally there were columns which listed the theory, > abstraction, and design elements comprising theses subareas. I think this was, in fact, the report of the Denning committee which attempted to define the discipline of computer science in a structured fashion. It was not a curriculum recommendation; this is now under development by a joint ACM/IEEE group. A report on this is expected at SIGCSE (Washington, February '90). Computer Science educators should look this over when the next draft is released.