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In September 2020, the Dean’s Office of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts launched a faculty Computing Education Task Force (CETF) charged with imagining a program that would enable all LSA students to leverage computing within a digital world for the good of society and science.  This group worked for a year to …

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The co-chair of the computing education task force, Mark Guzdial, wrote a blog post about the history of computer science. The idea that every undergraduate on campus should take a course in computing dates back to 1961, long before Silicon Valley and even before there was a job of being a software developer. He argues …

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