Is Computer Science Education in Crisis? HYACINTH S. NWANA University of Cambridge INTRODUCTION Computer science is a very young discipline, and a controversial, much-maligned, and misunderstood one even among computer scientists. Some have questioned the raison d etre for comË puter science and some employers mistrust or dislike computer science education. Some, in many cases computer scientists themselves, debunk it and even go as far as to question the need for its very existence. This leads me to examine why computer science education may be in crisis. The breakdown of this article is as follows. Section 2 reports on the background to this article. Section 3 presents a worrying criticism of the discipline. Section 4 concludes the article and raises a research question which could serve as the basis for an empirical investigation. BACKGROUND cal, and the attitude of the computer science graduate is frequently arrogant and disoriented. . . Far better results are obtained, particularly in the commercial world, if graduates are taken from any other subject but computer science, for these graduates have an open mind and have none of the preconceptions that cause the computer scientist such terrible confusion. They can accept their new job
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Is computer science education in crisis?
Nwana, Hyacinth S.
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, Volume 29 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1997
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