It's not clear if this directly addresses your complaint ("programming education" vs "computer science education") but there is a specific special interest grou

It's not clear if this directly addresses your complaint ("programming education" vs "computer science education") but there is a specific special interest group for computer science education that's been holding conferences since 1983. http://www.sigcse.org/ http://www.sigcse.org/ Symposia/conferences: http://www.sigcse.org/events/iticse http://www.sigcse.org/events/iticse http://www.sigcse.org/events/icer http://www.sigcse.org/events/icer http://www.sigcse.org/events/symposia http://www.sigcse.org/events/symposia On top of that there there's a great talk from David Patterson about how they are approaching their software engineering courses at Berkeley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfF9eqi1GcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfF9eqi1GcQ