Elements of German Informatics Curricula
Elements of German Informatics Curricula
Elements of German Informatics Curricula
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Four Questions<br />
Historical Remarks<br />
Problems – Solutions<br />
Summary – Bibliography<br />
Status: not really solved<br />
Misunderstanding and General Approaches<br />
Situation in Northrhine-Westfalia (NW)<br />
The Problem – What are we talking about?<br />
<strong>Informatics</strong> (Definitions)<br />
A science?<br />
Answers the question:<br />
What can be efficiently<br />
automated?<br />
»That means, it views<br />
itself as a formal and an<br />
engineering science,<br />
relying strongly on the<br />
traditional scientific<br />
paradigm«<br />
[Floyd u. a. 1992, p. 19].<br />
Why not CS, ICT, IT . . . ?<br />
Initiatives . . .<br />
The key<br />
ICDL – supported by<br />
IFIP ;-(<br />
is: information<br />
scientific approach<br />
subject: informatics<br />
(and _not_ computer<br />
science)<br />
L. Humbert <strong>Informatics</strong> <strong>Curricula</strong>
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