Providing curricular assistance to a third world university computer science department
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Abstract
Helping third world universities to improve their computer science curricula is an important obligation that first and second world computer science departments have. For third world countries, a technically skilled workforce that can compete in today's modern world is imperative for sustainable development.In this paper, we will describe a liaison between Montana State University (USA) and Don Bosco University (El Salvador) that resulted in the first author teaching three advanced computer science topics at Don Bosco University. The pedagogy related to teaching advanced topics to students of a different culture while being translated is described.We hope that this paper will convey how rewarding such an experience can be and to encourage other liaisons between computer science departments in the developed and developing parts of the world. Although the specifics of the experience described in this paper will almost certainly differ from your own, we believe that many of our general observations might be useful should you have the chance to be involved in a similar experience.
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