Why not have a curriculum that focuses on the full stack?

The full stack consisting of assembly, compiler design, C, networking, operating systems, embedded development, data structures and algorithms, databases development and design (including an understanding of the algorithms/optimizations used).

At least one class in functional programming and at least one in and OOP language.

And for all that is holy please teach classes where they have to do presentations and learn interpersonal skills and a few business classes. I am so sick of working with people who argue about technology but can’t come up with a business case for thier idea.

And then let them choose a “track” based on thier interests - after having for lack of a better term “career day” where people from the industry come in and give talks about what they do and the requirements to get a job there.

If that curricula means cutting out some core classes - so be it.

> The full stack consisting of assembly, compiler design, C, networking, operating systems, embedded development, data structures and algorithms, databases development and design (including an understanding of the algorithms/optimizations used).

> At least one class in functional programming and at least one in and OOP language.

I think it's pretty common for CS degrees to have all/most of this in scope already? At least I had all of it, with the exception of embededded development.

Yeah... maybe I'm out of touch (started undergrad in 2002) but... that sounds like a CS degree to me! Mine didn't cover embedded at all, but if you took the Advanced OS course, you ended up writing an x86 bootloader in asm at the start, which could eventually jump to main() for your scratch-built OS.

You are essentially describing the computer engineering curriculum that we have at Virginia Tech and I imagine a number of other schools have as well. Modern Computer Engineering curricula are more or less old school CS programs in that they focus on everything from user space and below.

At least from looking at Georgia Tech, there is a difference between the Computer Science curriculum and the Computer Engineering curriculum. The Computer Engineering curriculum seems more practical.