In 1995 Ince[1] wrote an article for the Times Higher Educational Supplement noting that there was little theoretical understanding of software engineering and that therefore computer studies did not constitute an aca...In 1995 Ince[1] wrote an article for the Times Higher Educational Supplement noting that there was little theoretical understanding of software engineering and that therefore computer studies did not constitute an academic discipline.Computing departments should be balkanised.Computing staff should be dispersed to other departments such as maths,psychology and business studies.This contro.ersy has recently been rein.igorated by McBride’s article[2] in the same paper and on the British Computer Society web site[3] arguing that in face of the massi.e decline in computing student intake onto uni.ersity undergraduate courses that the future for traditional courses is bleak.The reaction generated[3-4] reflects the anxiety within computing departments.The concern is e.ident.展开更多
文摘In 1995 Ince[1] wrote an article for the Times Higher Educational Supplement noting that there was little theoretical understanding of software engineering and that therefore computer studies did not constitute an academic discipline.Computing departments should be balkanised.Computing staff should be dispersed to other departments such as maths,psychology and business studies.This contro.ersy has recently been rein.igorated by McBride’s article[2] in the same paper and on the British Computer Society web site[3] arguing that in face of the massi.e decline in computing student intake onto uni.ersity undergraduate courses that the future for traditional courses is bleak.The reaction generated[3-4] reflects the anxiety within computing departments.The concern is e.ident.
