Skills and Theory in CS Education

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Skills and Theory in CS Education

• June 17, 2003
• Jin Hyung Kim
• KAIST Computer Science Department
• Prof_jkim_at_kaist.ac.kr

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Global S/W Market
Unit B

• 4 times larger than the semiconductor market
• Fastest growing market

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S/W Most Dynamic Market
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Goals of CS Education

• Training of Key players in S/W industry
• Professional software engineers
• Research workers in Computer Science

Software engineers are those do analysis,
specification, design, development,
certification, maintenance, testing of software
systems as a profession
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Goal of CS Education

• Training of those who meet Required
  Characteristics of CS Graduate
• System-level perspective
• Appreciation of the interplay between theory and
  practice
• Familiarity with common theme
• Significant project experience
• Adaptability

Source IEEE/ACM Curricular 2001
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5 Components of S/W Curriculum
Principles
Lasting concepts
Practices
Problem solving techniques
Applications
Areas of expertise to apply P P
Tools
State-of-the-art products
Mathematics
Formal basis
B. Meyer Software Engineering in the Academy
IEEE Computer, May 2001
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Not All Universities are Same
Principle
Math
Applications
Practice
Tools
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Evolution of School of Computing
School of Computing (informatics)
Programming Skill
Source IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001
Computer Science
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Computer Science Body of Knowledge
31
43
16
10
38
10
Total 280 Core Hours
3
8
21
31
15
18
36
Source IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001
Computer Science
10
Computing Curricula 1991 vs 2001
283
280
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Capstone Project Learning by Doing

• Integrate all the skills and theories learned in
  previous courses
• Group project of Software system development
• Goal of the development is to satisfy real
  customer
• Experience the entire process of software system
  development
• requirement analysis, design, development,
  integration, documentation, testing
• To Learn S/W Engineering practice, application
  area and tools
• Presentation, Demonstration or Contest
• Awarding and celebration party

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Korean Governments support of Industry-relevant
S/W Education

• Dispatch Industry professionals to Universities
• Teaching introductory programming courses
• Leading capstone Projects w/ instructors
• Teaches-to-teachers program
• Industry-relevant topics such as wireless
  platform, s/w process, eBusiness etc.
• CMU Software Engineering summer school
• Grants for computers and software purchase
• To facilitate curriculum update
• capstone project support
• Software Tool Center
• Open Source Software support

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KAIST Master of Engineering in Software

• Aims for training technically- strong software
  industry leaders, entrepreneurs
• Multidisciplinary program (CS, IE, Business, EE
  dept)
• The MBA course for Software Professionals
• 2 year Program
• Require 3 years of industrial experience for
  admission
• Emphasis on Professional Practice and Problem
  Solving skills
• Software engineering and project management
• Embedded systems development
• technology for eBusiness and Information systems
• Opening in 2004, Spring

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KAIST MEng in Software Curriculum (tentative)

• S/W Development Project
• S/W Engineering
• S/W Project Management
• IT Organization and Leadership
• Computing Technology for e-Business
• Embedded Computing
• Requirements Engineering
• Software Architecture and Design
• Software Process and Software Quality Assurance
• Information System Architectures and Standards
• Computing Security
• Internet Computing
• Software Business and Entrepreneurship

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Professors Joy as a Coach