Computing as a discipline

Authors:
D. E. Comer;David Gries;Michael C. Mulder;Allen Tucker;A. Joe Turner;Paul R. Young;Peter J. Denning
Affiliations:
-;-;-;-;-;-;NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1989

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Abstract

The final report of the Task Force on the Core of Computer Science presents a new intellectual framework for the discipline of computing and a new basis for computing curricula. This report has been endorsed and approved for release by the ACM Education Board.