Recentering Computer Science.
The article focuses on the decrease in the number of enrollments in computer science programs in the U.S. In computer science, the numbers of incoming freshmen fell by 60% between 2000 and 2004. The percentage of all college freshmen planning a major in computer science dropped to 1.4% in 2004. Mean...
| Published in: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 48; no. 11; pp. 15 - 20 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Nov2005
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