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Subject: Re: Topics #3, question 4
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Date: Sat, 9-May-87 13:04:31 EDT
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Summary: Discipline too young, and another topic for consideration

In article <1166@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu>, shaffer@operations.dccs.upenn.edu (Earl Shaffer) writes:
> Hello:  
> 
> 	This is the third in my "questions" posting...
> 	4) Should there be a formal certification process (unlike the
> 	   current one) that tests CS grads on specific certification
> 	   areas (such as software engineer, UNIX/IBM systems programmer)

    In my view, I feel that the discipline is too young to decide what 
    knowledge is most important and thus what knowledge would be tested
    in a certification process. 

    Because I've always been a student of CS I do not know of ANY certification 
    process (please feel free to fill me in on this point via email).

    As an additional topic for consideration, my undergraduate institution is
    requiring of its new CS majors a course in Ethics (yes, that philosophical
    stuff!)  Although I never had a course in Ethics, I am a philosophy phreak
    and would be interested in how others view this.  BTW it is a liberal arts
    university.

    Purdoin' it,
    Tom
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