Formal Report Outline

Title: Determining the Feasibility of Providing New Workshops

Introduction:

• General background about the labour demand in IT and university computer science education
• Introduction to UBC computer science program and its achievement.
• Introduction to the mismatch between the academic goal of computer science program and the actual industrial need.
• Purpose of this report
• Data source description
• Scope of this inquiry

Data:

• Previous UBC CS students
  1. Their job and how does their job relate to the computer science program
  2. Do they think their coding ability is enough when they get their first job? If not, what do they do to improve the coding ability?
  3. The necessary ability and knowledge learned only from career life
  4. The essential programming languages that students should learn before graduate
• Current UBC CS students
  1. Students’ career plan
  2. The self-qualification of coding/programming ability
  3. The understanding of actual industrial need/expectations for an IT student
  4. Their expectation for UBC to improve students’ coding ability

The Analysis of the Purposed Solution

• Insights from surveys
• To what extent does our purposed solution match the insights from surveys
• General requirements (learning goals) for workshops to match the insights from surveys
• Limitations of the workshops

 Conclusion:

• Summary of this report and interpretation of relevant findings
• Limitation and Recommendations