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@Article{Cupper:1998:CSP,
  author =       "Robert D. Cupper",
  title =        "Computer science: a proposed alternative track-applied
                 computing",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "30",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "25--29",
  month =        mar,
  year =         "1998",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/274790.273151",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sat Nov 17 16:56:29 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1990.bib",
  abstract =     "A traditional computer science program, in the liberal
                 arts tradition and environment, has been in existence
                 at Allegheny College for many years. The program was
                 designed and adopted in 1979 [6] and the ideas and
                 structure of that program became a substantial
                 contribution to the LACS ``Model Curriculum'' developed
                 in the early '80s and reported in [12]. In both of
                 these cases, a concerted effort was made to identify
                 and establish just what computer science is and design
                 a curriculum to ensure that its graduates were well
                 grounded in basic concepts and skills, the central core
                 of the discipline, and some advanced or application
                 areas. The Allegheny curriculum underwent minor changes
                 in 1990 in conjunction with the College's adoption of a
                 new base curriculum and calendar. The LACS model
                 curriculum was revisited in the early '90s following
                 publication of ACM's Computing Curricula 1991 [1]
                 resulting in a ``Revised Model Curriculum'' published
                 in late 1996. [16].All of these efforts were based on
                 the certainty that computer science had ``evolved into
                 an important academic discipline with a unique core of
                 knowledge, a set of basic questions and problems, and a
                 distinct method of approach to analysis of those
                 problems.'' [6], p. 1. The Allegheny and LACS models
                 were specifically designed to fit into and enhance a
                 traditional liberal arts curriculum [7]. To this end,
                 the goals or objectives of these programs were, above
                 all, to provide for a good liberal education in
                 computer science as a discipline. In particular, the
                 programs were designed to ensure that the student
                 obtains a solid academic base for further study or upon
                 which to build a long-term successful career in
                 computing. Specifically, successful completion of a
                 course of study in computer science following these
                 curricular guidelines ought to:1. enable the graduate
                 to understand the capabilities, limitations, and
                 ramifications of computing, the state of the art, and
                 current research and development in computer science
                 and related areas; 2. to provide the potential for
                 creative contribution to the art; 3. to facilitate
                 adaptation to changes in hardware and/or software
                 technology and to new and changing applications areas;
                 4. to prepare one for further study in computer science
                 at the graduate level; and 5. to prepare a student for
                 distinguished professional development in a career in
                 computing, or, in fact, many other areas. [6], p 8.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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