CS++: Content is not enough

Roger Boyle; Martyn Clark

doi:10.1145/1028174.971443

CS++: Content is not enough

Roger Boyle^*, Martyn Clark

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University of Leeds

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	422-426
Number of pages	5
Journal	SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)
Volume	36
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1028174.971443
Publication status	Published - Mar 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	35th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - Norfolk, VA, United States of America Duration: 03 Mar 2004 → 07 Mar 2004

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