The only problem with including (2) and (3) into an undergraduate CS curriculum is that you inevitably have to push other subject matter out in order to make ro

The only problem with including (2) and (3) into an undergraduate CS curriculum is that you inevitably have to push other subject matter out in order to make room for those guys. If you teach them explicitly, that is. Besides, those subjects are more within the domain of software engineering, which certainly merits distinction from CS, a point this article does well in alluding to. I'd much prefer that additional programming paradigms were taught to undergrads; something different than the vanilla procedural/OO duo that is the unfortunate captor of so many a CS department. I'd argue that parallelism and functional programming are topics far more vital to an aspiring computer scientist than things like web frameworks and SQL. To add to the shopping list, I think a nice proofs class would be worthwhile for CS undergrads. I also think a yearly seminar, project class would be helpful; a class where students can actually MAKE something of their own design.