Computing in Sri Lankan Universities
A. D. Woodall · Information Technology for Development · 1986
Workshops given by UK academics for Sri Lankan university staff are described. Experience with them is the background for a discussion of the best means of introducing computer studies in the universities of a developing country. A case is made for a bootstrapping approach, allowing local staff to play the predominant role. The implications of this approach for the rate of progress are accepted, and the desirability of teaching computer science as an academic discipline within the university system of a developing country is argued.