The Computing Research Association (CRA) recently announced the appointment of Andy van Dam to chair its new Education Committee, called CRA-E. This committee has been tasked with thinking broadly about the future of computing education, especially at the undergraduate level.

Established as part of an ongoing trend toward reexamining the image of computing and the nature of the 21st Century computing curriculum, the CRA-E seeks to understand how the broad computing community needs to move forward in order to develop principles and philosophy underlying the computing education of the future. “We need to rethink some of our fundamental assumptions about ...