CS++: content is not enough

  • Authors:
  • Roger Boyle;Martyn Clark

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Leeds, Leeds, UK;University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

University education in computer science requires that students learn something of the nature of the discipline. We argue that, in addition to content knowledge, two of the many things the educated computer scientist might know about are the computer science pantheon and the metaphorical structure of the discipline's technical language.