[Air-L] Non-Code-Centric Texts in Introductions To Computer Science?

[Stephen J Cavrak Jr]

Quoting "Pete[r] Landwehr" <plandweh at cs.cmu.edu>:

> Or is this whole idea dumb & everything is totally hunky-dory?

The idea isn't dumb, and things aren't even closely hunky-dory !

I recalled "an" earlier effort by the ACM to produce a standard  
"computer science" curriculum but could not recall when it was. So I  
did the sane thing and asked google about [acm recommendations for  
cs-1] ... I didn't find things similar to what I vaguely recalled but  
did come up with a nice summary of these efforts and some "start time"  
and "end time" data points ...

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     Martin Dickey, 2005. Model Curricula for Undergraduate Programs
     in Computer Science and Related Fields
     http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/dickey/curricula/

     For a bit of the Bzyantine history of SW Engineering curricular
     efforts, see the CCSE Steering Committee's page and my notes
     from an old version of this web page.
     http://sites.computer.org/ccse/

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     G. L. Engel, 1977, A Comparison of the ACMIC3S and the IEEE/CSE
     Model Curriculum Subcommittee Recommendations (PDF),
     http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/C-M.1977.217612

     Matthew Hertz, 2010. What do "CS1" and "CS2" mean?: investigating
     differences in the early courses,
     http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1734335

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I'd add two sources

(1) Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, http://cpsr.org/

(2) Peter G. Neumann, The Risks Digest, http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks

(3) Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind