CS2013-final-report

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This knowledge area is structured to be complementary to Systems Fundamentals,
Networking and Communication, Information Assurance and Security, and the Parallel
and Distributed Computing Knowledge Areas. While some argue that system
administration is the realm of IT and not CS, the working group believes that every
student should have the capability to carry out basic administrative activities, especially
those impact access control. Security and protection were electives in CC2001, while they
were included in the core in CS2008. They appear in the core here as well. Realization of
virtual memory using hardware and software has been moved to be an elective learning
outcome (OS/Virtual Machines). Details of deadlocks and their prevention, including
detailed concurrency is left to the Parallel and Distributed Computing Knowledge Area.
This is a new knowledge area, which demonstrates the need for students to be able to
work in parallel and distributed environments. This trend was initially identified, but not
included, in the CS2008 Body of Knowledge. It is made explicit here to reflect that some
familiarity with this topic has become essential for all undergraduates in CS.
For the core material, the outcomes were made more uniform and general by refactoring
material on object-oriented programming, functional programming, and event-oriented
programming that was in multiple knowledge areas in CC2001. Programming with less
mutable state and with more use of higher-order functions (like map and reduce) have
greater emphasis. For the elective material, there is greater depth on advanced language
constructs, type systems, static analysis for purposes other than compiler optimization,
and run-time systems particularly garbage collection.
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