Affiliation:
1. Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Abstract
This article discusses the findings of a survey of nearly 300 computing professionals who are involved in the design and/or development of software across a variety of industries. We report on the surveyed professionals’ perceptions of the importance of a range of topics and skills, and the degree to which 55 recent graduates felt that each topic or skill was emphasized in their undergraduate experience. Our findings highlight the value of breadth and flexibility in technical skills, and the universal importance of critical thinking, problem solving, on-the-job learning, and the ability to work well in cross-disciplinary teams. These findings align roughly with recommendations by the ACM/IEEE task force on computing curricula. However, the recent graduates we surveyed report inconsistent coverage of these most important areas within their degree experiences. We discuss implications for education and for future research.
Funder
Purdue University for funding this research through a Purdue Research Foundation grant
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Education,General Computer Science
Cited by
33 articles.
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