Threads™: How to restructure a computer science curriculum for a flat world

SIGCSE 2007: 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 420-424

  Furst, Merrick ^a   Isbell, Charles ^a   Guzdial, Mark ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology

Author keywords

Curricula; Flat world; Off shoring; Out sourcing; Programming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CURRICULA; DATA STRUCTURES; INNOVATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMPUTING CURRICULA; GLOBAL MARKETPLACE; SKILL BASED OCCUPATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34748829078     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1227310.1227456     Document Type: Conference Paper

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