Undergraduate Courses in Computer Science
Patrick Raymont · ITNOW · 1965
The need for specialist undergraduate studies in Computer Science is just beginning to be felt. There is a group of subjects, logic, numerical analysis, programming, electronics, file processing, automata theory, business systems etc., which ought to be studied in conjunction, yet which cannot fit together in any of the traditional disciplines, and it is this group of subjects which form the core of Computer Science. In the universities there has been some reluctance to recognise the existence of this grouping as a suitable study for the undergraduate, and so the university sector of our higher education system has concentrated its efforts in the postgraduate sphere. This attitude persists (cf. a report on “Seminar on the Teaching of Computational Science” held at the University of Liverpool March 1965), though Manchester University are setting up a course heavily biassed towards electronics, and the American Universities have made several interesting experiments in the field.