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What does business and industry expect from computer science graduates today?

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 15, Issue 1

Pages 82 - 84

https://doi.org/10.1145/952978.801018

Published: 01 February 1983 Publication History

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In developing a curriculum that produces graduates that are readily accepted in today's business and industry the question arises, “What courses in a student's background are most vital?” To address this question a questionnaire was constructed and sent to 500 businesses and industries in South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, and Florida. This short paper reports the rather startling findings of this survey.

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What does business and industry expect from computer science graduates today?
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
  2. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Model curricula

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 15, Issue 1

Proceedings of the 14th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

February 1983

301 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/952978

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SIGCSE '83: Proceedings of the fourteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
February 1983
307 pages
ISBN:0897910915
DOI:10.1145/800038
Chairmen:
Larry K. Cottrell,
Sheau-Dong Lang,
A. Joe Turner

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