More about academics
Want to more about CS curriculum, including majors and courses? The pages below go into detail---enjoy!
Contents
- National Recommendations for CS Majors
- What should be in a CS major? The professional societies speak.
- Knowledge areas in the CS major
- Comparing St. Olaf's CS major to national norms by knowledge area.
- Liberal Arts CS Major Recommendations
- How St. Olaf's major compares to national recommendations for comparable colleges.
- A breadth-first introduction to CS
- St. Olaf's CS1 course provides an accessible hands-on survey of the principles of the discipline of CS.
- Recurring concepts in St. Olaf's CS1
- An analysis of the introductory course in terms of the principles of CS.
- St. Olaf's CS1 and CC1991
- An annotated syllabus relating CS 121 and the recurring concepts of Computing Curricula 1991.
Coming events:
Len Wyatt, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft will visit on Monday, Dec 3.
Talk: Big Data: Helping Users to See the Light, 4:45pm in RNS 203 on 12/3
Informal Q&A about working at Microsoft, 3:15-4:30 in RNS 203 on 12/3
News
Maggie Wanek '15 received an NSF-funded scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Baltimore in October.
The CSinParallel project was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant to produce new teaching modules for adding parallel and distributed computing to undergraduate CS courses. The project () is led by Prof. Dick Brown at St. Olaf and two other professors at Macalester and Calvin Colleges.
Eleven CS students participated in summer research during 2012, including eight full-time researchers at St. Olaf.
"Thing3," a new 64-core computer was added to the CS program's parallel and distributed computing resources in June, designed and constructed by Jay Petersen '13, Michael Stone '13, and Maggie Wanek '15.
