Revitalizing Computing Education Through Free and Open Source Software For Humanity
The humanitarian focus of socially useful projects promises to motivate community-minded undergrads in and out of CS.
Allen Tucker
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The mathematical thinking, as well as the mathematics, in a computer science education prepares students for all stages of system development, from design to the correctness of the final implementation.
Recently, the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) has decided to redesign the Advanced Placement (AP) examination in computer science (CS) so that AP courses will be forced to switch from Pascal to C++ starting around 1998.
The final report of the Task Force on the Core of Computer Science presents a new intellectual framework for the discipline of computing and a new basis for computing curricula. This report has been endorsed and approved for release by the ACM Education Board.
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