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Computer science departments today face a serious staffing crisis, as faculty and graduate students abandon academia for industry while undergraduate enrollments rise. The current crisis is similar to one that occurred in the early 1980s, which gives us ...

The Impact CS project, described in Dianne Martin's current and previous SIGCSE column, addresses Curriculum 91's mandate "to include the social and ethical implications of computing" in the curriculum. I have two concerns with this mandate. The mandate ...

This column describes the background and process in creating a new graduate IS curriculum model and guidelines for the 21st Century. It also presents an overview of the MSIS program and the curriculum architecture.

The concept of a function is arguably one of the most fundamental in computer science. It is frequently also one of the most problematic. In particular, students often have difficulty inferring, in a mathematically well-supported manner, equality of ...

At the 1998 SIGCSE Technical Symposium a paper, entitled "Providing Intellectual Focus to CS1/CS2," was presented in which the authors argued for a more intellectually-focused approach to the first-year sequence in an undergraduate computer science ...

This is not a research paper about distance learning or teaching, but rather a chronicle of the author's two-month visit to a department in another country where she taught a course similar to CS2 as a distance learning course. Hence, the title.

When studying a programming language for the first time, the majority of student errors fall into broad (and well-documented) categories [3]. This paper aims to investigate errors made by first year students in Blue: A new, object-oriented language ...

This paper describes the methodology used to teach an introductory Database Management System course. Although all content description refers exclusively to this class, the methodology can be used to teach other computer science courses. There are ...

Modern cryptographic algorithms such as DES, IDEA are very complex and therefore difficult to learn. Textbooks explain in detail how these algorithms work, but they usually do not explain why these algorithms were designed as they were. In this paper, ...

This paper describes the concept of an asynchronous distance-learning course and its application to an elective course, Data Communications and Networks. Goals for the asynchronous course included providing facilities and opportunities for interaction ...

The Master of Science, major in Computing and Information Systems (CIS) is a graduate program offered jointly by the graduate faculties of the Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and the Department of Computer Management and ...

In this paper we examine how trends in programming methodology support the definition of value types. We ask the question have we really advanced in the move from traditional to OO methodologies, have we produced square wheels, or have we just changed ...

Java provides most of the primitive functions necessary for implementing advanced graphics algorithms. Being a language that is highly portable and concurrent, Java also has all the capabilities of a powerful general purpose programming language ...

The discipline of computing encompasses the understanding, design, and use of computers and computational processes. The breadth of the discipline is emphasized in the following quotation from a report issued by the Computing Sciences Accreditation ...