• DocumentCode
    2937054
  • Title

    A survey of the relevance of computer science and software engineering education

  • Author

    Lethbridge, Timothy C.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    22-25 Feb 1998
  • Firstpage
    56
  • Lastpage
    66
  • Abstract
    We describe a study of 168 software professionals to determine how relevant their education has been to their careers. Starting with a list of 57 topics, we asked the participants to indicate how much they learned in university, how much they know now, how useful the material has been and whether they would like to learn more. We conclude from the results that certain software engineering topics should be given more emphasis, while the emphasis on certain mathematics topics should be changed
  • Keywords
    computer science education; employment; professional aspects; software engineering; careers; computer science education relevance survey; mathematics; software engineering education; software professionals; university; Computer science; Computer science education; Conducting materials; Educational institutions; Educational programs; Engineering profession; Information technology; Mathematics; Software engineering; Software performance;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Engineering Education, 1998. Proceedings., 11th Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Atlanta, GA
  • ISSN
    1093-0175
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-8326-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSEE.1998.658300
  • Filename
    658300