COMPUTE

Data structure remains to be a core course in the study for a degree in Computer Science. Is this being taught the right way?

More often than not, a data structure is taught as an implementation than an interface. A list is always considered as a ...

IIT Madras’ undergraduate data science program (https://onlinedegree.iitm.ac.in), started in Jan 2021, with online course delivery and in-person exams, has more than 15,000 enrolled students today. How can high quality education in data science be ...

There is much discussion in computing education about turning research into practice because research-informed teaching could (or should) be more effective. However, it is often noted that there is a disconnect between practice and research. A lot of ...

Research has demonstrated that diverse teams are more innovative and productive. At the ACM, as a computing professional community, it is our responsibility to make the resources and services cater to the needs of all members of the society. To ensure ...

We present a vision for a futuristic programming environment, where ML models and logical rules co-exist and evolve over time. We substantiate our vision using three case studies: (1) safe code generation using large language models, (2) heterogeneous ...

Parallel and Distributed systems such as cluster computing, cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) have become pervasive technologies that are essential not just to computer science but also to design and deploy applications from ...

Different areas of computer science have different challenges with respect to curriculum development, textbook writing, and teaching. Computer architecture represents one extrema in this hyper-dimensional space: it is an applied discipline, the theory ...

With the rapidly growing student population for computer science, teachers need to be relieved from repetitive tasks like grading to focus their resources on teaching and guiding students. Plagiarism has always been a concern for instructors and has ...

It is a pernicious problem in computing education to grapple with teaching complex concepts, or even simple concepts if only because often enough the mental leap of abstraction required to imagine and visualize the ideas when they are not so tangible ...

With the increasing adoption of agile methods in the industry, there is a need for restructuring the content and delivery of software engineering courses in universities and institutes. Such restructuring should also address the mismatch between the ...

An engineer in a product company is expected to design a good solution to a computing problem (Design skill) and articulate the solution well (Expression skill). We expect an industry-ready student (final year student or a fresh campus hire) as well to ...

A growing set of tasks that once depended critically on human cognition can now be effectively accomplished by automated systems, either independently or in partnership with humans. This trend is being accelerated by advances in Artificial Intelligence ...

Linked list is a commonly used data structure due to its efficient memory utilization, faster access by using non-contiguous memory, and pointer manipulations. It is used to implement various data structures such as stacks, queues, and trees. However, ...

Designing any curriculum is hard. Perhaps that may explain the scarcity of efforts to develop frameworks, especially comprehensive frameworks. We present a novel framework to design computing curricula. Our framework enables explicit intent statement ...

Post graduate (PG) programs in computer science provide domain specialization to the students. These PG programs also serve as prerequisites for doctoral programs at various universities. This article discusses various factors that impact the designing ...

Industry knowledge forms the subject matter of the software being built in the IT industry. Academia faces challenges in seeding industry knowledge in its curriculum resulting in industry-academia gap. Knowledge Driven Development (KDD) is a knowledge ...

The Indian National Policy on Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2015 aims to bridge the human resource gaps in the country. Under this umbrella, Futureskills Prime (FSPrime) is a national level ecosystem funded by Ministry of Electronics and ...