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The progress of undergraduate software engineering education

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 26, Issue 4

Pages 51 - 55

https://doi.org/10.1145/190650.190662

Published: 01 December 1994 Publication History

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Although U.S. universities do not yet offer undergraduate degrees named "Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering," several schools are making progress in that direction. Efforts at eleven schools are described.

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