shaffer@operations.dccs.upenn.edu (Earl Shaffer) (05/08/87)
Hello: This is the third in my "questions" postins. I received a fair amount of responses to the old postings. Lets keep active dialogs going about these and other questions that concern us as people interested in Computer Science education. 1) Should CS student be held to the same moral and ehtical rules and guidelines as Law students and acccounting majors (ie. cheating=dropped from the roles) 2) Do you agree with the ACM guidelines for CS ugrad course? (If you are not familiar with them they are in SIGCSE) 3) How well are "topics" courses being used in schools around the country (ie. new topics like Expert Systems and new languages) 4) Should there be a formal certification process (unlike the current one) that tests CS grads on specific certification areas (such as software engineer, UNIX/IBM systems programmer) 5) Are 4GLs, relational database packages (ie Oracle) and application generators putting the "squeeze" on traditional application programmers. (ie. ads say "program development without programmers) Please post your general responses to the net so that we can all share in the discourse. I hope that these questions will start some people thinking. cheers,