CS Education in the U.S.: Heading in the wrong direction?

In this article the authors discusses methods used to teach fundamental principles of software engineering to students. The authors suggest that there exists the potential for a shortage of well-trained software engineers. Other topics include the knowledge required to build reliable systems that ar...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 7; pp. 41 - 44
Autor principal: Dewar, Robert
Formato: Opinion
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2009
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Sumario:In this article the authors discusses methods used to teach fundamental principles of software engineering to students. The authors suggest that there exists the potential for a shortage of well-trained software engineers. Other topics include the knowledge required to build reliable systems that are both large and complex.