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This paper describes the curriculum of a BSIT program at a small, liberal arts college located in the northeast U.S. and the changes that would be necessary to be made in the BSIT curriculum for it to follow the IT 2008 guidelines. The paper describes the genesis of the BSIT and its basis in IT 2005. The paper also presents an evaluation of the current IT curriculum at the college with respect to the IT 2008 Curriculum Guidelines and reports on the changes necessary to implement the Curriculum Guidelines in that environment.General Terms: Human Factors.

Object-oriented programming has become increasingly popular in the past few years. This paper presents a cpu scheduling simulation project that we feel can convince students of the benefits of object-oriented design and spur their interest. We will first describe the project and discuss its solutions in three levels of abstraction: structured programming using Pascal, object-based programming using Ada, and objectoriented programming using C++. We will present our experiences in this assignment and explain why the objectoriented design is the best approach. This paper is intended to serve as a case study in an object-oriented language course or a programming languages course.