Computing curricula software engineering: position paper

No curriculum, however good, will solve our problems on its own. We need to take and use this effectively (and hence need measures of what is effective too). My position is therefore that the CCSE is a useful and quite important stepping-stone, but it is not a watershed in the education process ⁿfortunately, I think there are many more tasks ahead of us. The SEI´s programme to develop curriculum modules back in the late 1980s represented a determined attempt to bootstrap software engineering education, using expert judgement with some degree of consultation. The process used to develop the CCSE has moved on a step from this, but was still heavily dependent upon expert judgement-even if this has drawn upon a larger community and longer experience. For the next step, we therefore need to begin to replace the use of expert judgement with evidence that has been carefully assembled and systematically reviewed