How to Keep Up

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How to Keep Up

• Hector Garcia-Molina
• Computer Science Department
• Stanford University

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CS Undergrad Curriculum
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CS Undergrad - Basics
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CS Undergrad CS Core
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CS Masters DB Specialization
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CS Masters Common Core
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CS Masters DB Specialization
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Keeping Curricula Up To Date

• Active Faculty
• Research
• Open Source Projects
• Outside Collaborations
• Feedback from Industry and Graduates
• ACM Curriculum
• Final Report of the Joint ACM/IEEE-CS Task Force
  on Computing Curricula 2001 for Computer Science
• Google acm curricula

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Theory vs. Practice?

• Theory vs. Practice
• Concepts vs. skills
• Introductory courses
• abstractions vs. implementation detail
• java vs C vs C vs C vs scheme