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What is a first-year computer science graduate student?

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This is an informal discussion of several problems we have begun to notice in our graduate degree program. As the birthplace of the ENIAC, the University of Pennsylvania has long been a source of computer related courses in its graduate curriculum. With the growth of the undergraduate computer science curriculum, however, several significant problems have developed. In the first place, many of the courses in our graduate program are being overtaken by courses which are now recognized as part of the undergraduate curriculum. As a consequence, we are now faced with a “mixed bag” of backgrounds in our graduate student body, ranging from those with no background in computers at all, much like our earliest graduate students, to those who have had a full undergraduate computer science program and seek further education.

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      cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
      ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 8, Issue 1
      Proceedings of the SIGCSE-SIGCUE joint symposium on Computer science education
      February 1976
      399 pages
      ISSN:0097-8418
      DOI:10.1145/952989
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        SIGCSE '76: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE technical symposium on Computer science and education
        February 1976
        403 pages
        ISBN:9781450374125
        DOI:10.1145/800107

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