Computer programming and computer systems

Curriculum 68: Recommendations for academic programs in computer science: a report of the ACM curriculum committee on computer science

The need for education related to information systems in organizations is discussed, and a curriculum is proposed for graduate professional programs in universities, at the Master's level. Material necessary for such programs is identified, and courses incorporating it are specified. Detailed course descriptions are presented, program organization discussed, and implementation questions considered. General permission to republish, but not for profit, all or part of this material is granted, provided that reference is made to this publication, to its date of lissue, and to the fact that reprinting privileges were granted by permission of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Curriculum recommendations for graduate professional programs in information systems

The need for education related to information systems in organizations is discussed, and a curriculum is proposed for an undergraduate program. Material necessary for such pr0gram~/is identified, and courses incorporating it are specified. Detailed~ourse descriptions are presented. Program organization and problems of implementation are discussed.

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Curriculum recommendations for undergraduate programs in information systems

The ACM Subcommittee on Small College Programs of the Committee on Curriculum in Computer Science (C3S) was appointed in 1969 to consider the unique problems of small colleges and universities, and to make recommendations regarding computer science programs at such schools. This report, authorized by both the subcommittee and C3S, supplies a set of recommendations for courses and necessary resources.Implementation problems are discussed, specifically within the constraints of limited faculty and for the purposes of satisfying a wide variety of objectives. Detailed descriptions of four courses are given; suggestions are made for more advanced work; and an extensive library list is included.

A computer science course program for small colleges

Today, we could hardly imagine using a computer without an operating system , it shapes and frames how we access the computer and its peripherals and supports our interaction with it throughout. But when the first computers were developed after World War II there was no such thing. In fact, only about a decade after the birth of digital computing did the first attempts at some kind of operating systems appear. It took another decade before the idea became widely accepted and most computers would be rented out or sold with an operating system. With the development of ambitious operating systems during the mid 1960s, such as OS/360 for the IBM machines or Multics for an integrated time-sharing system, a more systematic framework was formulated that has determined our modern view of the operating system. Especially the emergence of time-sharing systems has traditionally been seen as a turning point in the development of operating systems. In the history of computing this has become a classic point of passage because of the sometimes fierce discussions between the proponents of time-sharing and the defenders of batch-processing in the late 1960s. Important as these discussions were for thinking about the use and about the users of the computer , the emphasis on this transition has biased the view on early computer systems. As a matter of fact, the period between roughly 1954 and 1964 cannot be merely discounted as " empirical " or " prehistoric " , nor as the time of batch-processing systems. Rather a variety of systems were developed and the very idea(s) of an operating system had to be created from scratch

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Computer programming and computer systems

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Curriculum 68: Recommendations for academic programs in computer science: a report of the ACM curriculum committee on computer science

Curriculum recommendations for graduate professional programs in information systems

Curriculum recommendations for undergraduate programs in information systems

A computer science course program for small colleges

What is an Operating System? A historical investigation (1954–1964)

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