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Creating a computer science canon: a course of “classic” readings in computer science (2003)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Eisenberg, Michael |
| Description | In Proceedings of the 34th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education Computer science has a reputation of being a discipline in a perpetual state of accelerated progress—a discipline in which our techniques, our hardware, our software systems, and our literature rarely exhibit a staying power of more than several years. While undeniably exciting, this state of continual intellectual upheaval can leave computer science students (and faculty) with a disturbing sense that there is no essential core of great work within the discipline. This paper describes a readings course entitled “Computer Science: the Canon ” whose purpose is to counter this perception by exploring a set of “great works ” in computer science. We describe our own (undoubtedly idiosyncratic) reading list used for the course, and discuss several central issues involved in offering such a course within a computer science curriculum. |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | ACM Press |
| Publisher Date | 2003-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Several Central Issue Several Year Computer Science Curriculum Computer Science Canon Continual Intellectual Upheaval Great Work Perpetual State Accelerated Progress Essential Core Software System Computer Science Classic Reading Computer Science Student Reading Course |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
