A computer science course program for small colleges
Communications of the ACM
A survey of the literature in computer science education since curriculum '68
Communications of the ACM
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In the past decade many two-year colleges have developed and implemented various curricula in Data Processing and/or Computer Science. These programs grew out of existing vocational needs for computer operators, data prepares, EAM equipment operators and application programmers. Since very few four-year institutions offered a bachelor's program in Computer Science, the two-year schools generally did not develop a sequence of courses geared to the needs of the transfer student. These students were usually advised to concentrate in either mathematics or business administration - a situation which persists in many colleges today. This paper will offer a discussion of several factors which have affected the needs of both the terminal and the transfer student of two-year colleges and which consequently warrant a revision of the existing two-year Computer Science curricula. A curriculum and description of revised course content will be suggested as one possible alternative.