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Setting the foundations of computer science in a business oriented program

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From the computer science educators point of view, each of these transitions should be made as rapidly and completely as possible. Here again rises the eternal trade-off: time vs storage. A complete transition requires time, which the student might be reluctant to invest; and a quick transition requires cramming so much information into a short time span that the student cannot absorb it. This paper focuses on this problem as it currently faces us who are “transforming” undergraduate business majors into the ways of computer science. The business major is no slouch that has to be re-tooled, but rather a practically oriented person whose approach to problem analysis has to be reoriented to include a more rigorous approach.

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          cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
          ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 7, Issue 1
          Proceedings of the 5th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
          February 1975
          209 pages
          ISSN:0097-8418
          DOI:10.1145/953064
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            SIGCSE '75: Proceedings of the fifth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
            January 1975
            221 pages
            ISBN:9781450373982
            DOI:10.1145/800284

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