Education: What Must All Post-Secondary Students Learn about Computing?

Barr focuses on what post-secondary students should learn about computing. Many in the CS community, particularly in the US, are focused on ways to broaden participation (for example, by gender, race, and ability) in the academic study of CS, with a hoped for derivative impact of diversifying the field both in academia and industry. There are two motivations for this work: many people are currently closed out of lucrative career opportunities; and a more diverse workforce representative of a range of backgrounds and perspectives may encourage problem solutions and product development that better address the needs of a diverse population, with fewer products that have harmful or downright oppressive outcomes. Even though CS enrollments have been increasing since the late 2000s, enrollments and declared CS majors still do not mirror the demographics of the larger population.