Organization of programming languages for business information systems majors

Abstract

The course CS8 “Organization of Programming Languages” of Curriculum '78 is presented in the context of a program for Business Information Systems at a small business college. The applicability of this course to the Information Systems curriculum is considered. It is asserted that the successful inclusion of this course suggests the desirability of including the other core computer science material, as defined in Curriculum '78, in a program for Information Systems.

References

1. 1 Nunamaker, J. F., et al., "Information Systems Curriculum Recommendations for the 80's: Undergraduate and Graduate Programs - A Report of the ACM Curriculum Committee on Information Systems", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 25, Number 11, November 1982.
2. 2 Adams, David and Thomas Athey, ed., DPMA Model Curriculum for Undergraduate Computer Information Systems Education, 1981.
3. 3 Austing, Richard H., et al., "CURRICULUM '78: Recommendations for the Undergraduate Program in Computer Science", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 22, Number 3, March 1979.
4. 4 Ledgard, Henry and Michael Marcotty, The Programming Language Landscape, Science Research Associates, Inc., 1981.
5. 5 Hughes, Joan K., PL/I Structured Programming, Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 1979.
6. 6 Levy, Michael R, "Modularity and the Sequential File Update Problem", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 25, Number 6, June 1982.

Index Terms

• Social and professional topics

  • Professional topics

    • Computing education

      • Computing education programs

        • Computer science education

        • Information science education

      • Model curricula

• Software and its engineering

  • Software notations and tools

    • General programming languages