The Changing Ways of Computer Science Engineering Education: A Suitable Pedagogy to Adapt Better

摘要

Computer industry workforce skills required continue to change rapidly. Newer computer technologies are introduced continually while existing ones become obsolete at a faster pace. It is a major challenge to evolve a flexible curriculum that can adapt to those rapid and substantial changes and that new graduates may be taught with. For example, when the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) released the Computer Curriculum in 1991, networking was not seen as a major topic area. Networking was not a mass-market phenomenon then, and the World Wide Web was little more than an idea in the minds of its creators. Today, networking and the web have changed the way we do business. Other professional organizations, in addition to ACM, such as the Institution of Electrical & Electronics Engineering (IEEE), and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) are also at the forefront of addressing this challenge. They rapidly and continuously strive to provide the necessary directions in curriculum content and pedagogy. The current "Language First" CSE curriculum globally followed has stood the ground for close to five decades; but it has many inherent flaws. Some among them include emphasis on language and syntax rather than design methodology and problem solving.