Gaps between industry expectations and the abilities of graduates

SIGCSE 2013 - Proceedings of the 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 525-530

  Radermacher, Alex ^a   Walia, Gursimran ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science education; Computer science pedagogy; Knowledge deficiency; Required skills; Software developer

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT TOOLS; CURRICULUM CHANGES; KNOWLEDGE DEFICIENCY; ORAL AND WRITTEN COMMUNICATION; REQUIRED SKILLS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84876268289     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2445196.2445351     Document Type: Conference Paper

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