Beyond Programming and Software Development: Additional Teaching/Learning Goals throughout the Curriculum

摘要

As with most colleges, we always believed that our Computer Science program was strong and that our graduates performed well in the "real world". Feedback from alumni informed us that some were at a loss when performing "basic" activities like completing self-assessment reports for annual evaluations or reports in which they assessed other workers, either peers or those they supervised. A few students who went to Graduate School informed us that they were taken aback at the amount of material the professors expected them to cover on their own. Informal feedback such as this took us a bit by surprise, but over the past decade, we have made great strides in better preparing our students for "life after college". This paper describes a few of the successful curricular enhancements we have made to address these deficiencies, focusing on both upper-level and lower-level courses.