Computer science education in small colleges - a report with recommendations

Abstract

The Subcommittee on Small College Programs of the Committee on Curriculum in Computer Science (C3S), of the Association for Computing Machinery was appointed in 1969 to consider the unique problems of smaller colleges and universities, and to make recommendations regarding programs at such schools.Through the efforts of this group, with support from the National Science Foundation, an institute was held, in the summer of 1971 at Purdue University, on undergraduate computer science education. At this institute fifty-three instructors from smaller colleges and universities received instruction regarding the teaching of courses in discrete structures, programming languages, data structures, and operating systems. In the process of evaluating the results of this institute, it became apparent to the committee that recommendations regarding programs in computer science specifically directed to the smaller schools were needed. It is the purpose of this report to supply these recommendations.