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Executive Summary: See http://cs2013.org for the first public draft of the 2013 Computer Science Curricula Report from ACM and IEEE-CS.  A public comment period is open from now until July 15th.  The SIGPLAN Education Board wrote the Programming Languages section … Continue reading →

  At PLDI 2011 (last summer), Laurie Hendren organized and moderated a panel on, “Teaching Programming Language Design and Implementation … What?  To Whom? How?”  The other panelists were Alex Aiken, Ras Bodik, Dan Grossman, and Michael Hind.  Laurie also … Continue reading →

For people attending the Federated Computing Research Conference (including PLDI) next week in San Jose, there are three events quite relevant to the work of the SIGPLAN Education Board.  Please try to attend as many as you can!  In chronological … Continue reading →

The SIGPLAN Education Board continues to assist with the ongoing work for the 2013 ACM/IEEE Curriculum for Computer Science. Specific information about draft materials for Programming Languages (and other areas) should be available this summer. Meanwhile, the overall effort has … Continue reading →

The ACM and IEEE have begun the process of producing curriculum guidelines for computer science to replace the 2008 interim revision of the 2001 curriculum.  The goal is to complete this work by 2013, continuing the long tradition of updates … Continue reading →

We recently posted a modest revision of this linked document to incorporate feedback.  Special thanks to Steve Freund for leading this project.  While further improvements are always possible, our plan is to move on to other tasks.  Please do share … Continue reading →

The SIGPLAN Education Board has 3 new members: Curt Clifton, Johan Jeuring, and Simon Thompson.  The full Board is: Kim Bruce http://www.cs.pomona.edu/~kim/ Curt Clifton http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~clifton/ Kathi Fisler http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~kfisler/ Stephen Freund http://www.cs.williams.edu/~freund/ Dan Grossman http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/djg [Chair] Matthew Hertz http://www-cs.canisius.edu/~hertzm/ Johan Jeuring … Continue reading →

The SIGPLAN Education Board blog has moved from its old url to this one.  This move is an opportunity to choose a more thorough name (including sigplan in the url) and to install some anti-spam measures for the comments. All … Continue reading →

Thanks for all of the comments on the current draft of the paper, “Why Undergraduates Should Learn the Principles of Programming Languages”. We are very pleased to have started a thoughtful community discussion. We encourage additional feedback from which we … Continue reading →

The linked document is the first public release of a document discussing the value of programming languages principles for undergraduate CS majors.  The intended audience is computer scientists who are not specialists in programming languages.  Please leave comments on how … Continue reading →