An undergraduate program in computer science—preliminary recommendations

Abstract

The Curriculum Committee on Computer Science (C 3 S) of the Association for Computing Machinery has been considering curriculum problems for approximately three years. During the early part of this period, a number of informal sessions were held with computer people at various national meetings. In the latter part of this three-year period, the Committee has been formally organized and has made a definite effort to arrive at a concrete suggestions for a curriculum.

Gamifying programming education in K‐12: A review of programming curricula in seven countries and programming games

“…Computer science (CS) curricula at university contexts have a history dating back to the 1960s (Conte et al, 1965). Since its first recommendation for a curriculum, the Association for Computer Machinery (ACM), in collaboration with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), has continued to publish guidelines for CS curricula, with the latest one being the 2013…”

Changing aims of computing education: a historical survey

“…Competing with organizations such as IEEE, DPMA, and IFIP, the ACM Curriculum Committee, formed in 1962, organized panel discussions at ACM National Conferences and worked on a definitive set of curriculum recommendations for academic computing (Gupta, 2007). The committee released the first draft of its curriculum recommendations in 1965 (Conte et al, 1965), and the final version of the ACM Curriculum was published in 1968 (Atchison et al, 1968). Although the curriculum document was followed by some passionate debates, Computing Curriculum (CC) '68 became an authoritative guideline that played an important role in establishing computing education in the U.S.: it was visionary, well organized, and complete, and it encouraged the publication of textbooks for the courses it listed (Austing, Barnes, & Engel, 1977b;Gupta, 2007).…”