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 Let X be your favorite government, agency etc. X wants a reference education framework and, typically, has set aside a sizeable budget you want apply for or a certification programme you would. Let X be your favorite government, agency etc. X wants a reference education framework and, typically, has set aside a sizeable budget you want apply for or a certification programme you would.
  
-**Disclaimer:​** As you can imagine, if you don't grasp it by yourself, numbers of hours and subjects are //​illustrative//​ [i.e. appropriately invented].+**Disclaimer:​** As you can imagine, if you need to be told, numbers of hours and subjects are //​illustrative//​ [i.e. appropriately invented].
  
-==== So What's Reference Framework? ​ ====+==== So What'​s ​Reference Framework? ​ ====
  
 Something like the [[https://​www.acm.org/​education/​curricula-recommendations|ACM/​IEEE recommended Curriculum for Computer Science and Engineering]]. To call yourself Computer Scientist according to the ACM/IEEE your degree program must have :  Something like the [[https://​www.acm.org/​education/​curricula-recommendations|ACM/​IEEE recommended Curriculum for Computer Science and Engineering]]. To call yourself Computer Scientist according to the ACM/IEEE your degree program must have : 
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   * 35hrs of //​BendYouKnee//​.   * 35hrs of //​BendYouKnee//​.
  
-For each of those subjects the document spell out what is supposed to be done in the 20hrs of //​KissMyAss//​ to be call that way and not //​BendYouKnee//​. Hours and selection of topics are objectives ​and never depend on whoever among **The Goods & The Greats** was in that committee (Homework 1). But let's not get drawn into revolutionary thoughts.+For each of those subjects the document spell out what is supposed to be done in the 20hrs of //​KissMyAss//​ to be call that way and not //​BendYouKnee//​. Hours and selection of topics are objective ​and never depend on whoever among **The Goods & The Greats** was in that committee (Homework 1). But let's not get drawn into revolutionary thoughts.
  
 Another exampe is the DHS effort which created knowledge areas (aka superset of courses) and said  Another exampe is the DHS effort which created knowledge areas (aka superset of courses) and said 
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      * 15hrs of //​Cryptography//, ​      * 15hrs of //​Cryptography//, ​
      * 32hrs of //​NetworkForensics//,​      * 32hrs of //​NetworkForensics//,​
-     ​* ​[...+     * ... 
      * 20hrs of //​NoQuestionNoLie//​ and       * 20hrs of //​NoQuestionNoLie//​ and 
      * 2hrs of //​BendYourKnee//​. ​      * 2hrs of //​BendYourKnee//​. ​
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-==== Your Task ====+==== Your Task to Save the World ====
  
-You have to collect all reasonable areas and extend them to few pages of <​del>​rant</​del>​ detailed description that extend into a document showing that 20hrs of //​BendYouKnee (US)// are more or less the same as 15hrs of //​KissMyHand (IE)//.+You have to collect all reasonable areas and extend them to few pages of <​del>​rant</​del>​ detailed description that extend into a document showing that 20hrs of //​BendYouKnee (US)// are more or less the same as 15hrs of //​KissMyHand (UK)//.
  
-We [=you and your chums in the project, including a suitable appointed ​TheG&thG Committethen show that this 15hrs with 6hrs Lab are equal to 25hrs of //​BaciaManinaTestaChina (IT)// and 2liters of //​GewurzTraminerHalbTrocken (AT)//.+It might be that multple nations are involved in which case <del>you and some chum of yours</​del> ​ **TheG&TheG Committe** of reknown scientists ​then show that 15hrs with 6hrs Lab //​KissMYHand (UK)// ​are equal to 25hrs of //​BaciaManinaTestaChina (IT)// and 2liters of //​GewurzTraminerHalbTrocken (AT)//.
  
-So we end with an "​aligned educational feamework"​ and X is happy to recommend, make it mandatory, whatever to all its stakeholders.+So we end with an "​aligned educational feamework"​ and X is happy to recommend ​it, make it mandatory, whatever to all its stakeholders.
  
-==== Potential ​impact ​on the word if you make mistake ​====+==== Potential ​Impact ​on the World if You Make Mistake ​====
  
-You shouldn'​t be worried of ruining ​nations ​as they will ignore it wholesale ​as +You shouldn'​t be worried of bringing ​nations ​to racks and ruins as 
  
-  ​the 17hrs of //​SwirlYouHead//​ taugth by the chair //​Prof.Dr.Eng. J.H. Knowsall// of their **TheG&​TheG** ​Commitee ​is not included as you didn't know it existed ("Oh My God, how can one graduate without that? I mean, really..."​). +  ​* Academics will ignore it wholesale because ​the 17hrs of //​SwirlYouHead//​ taugth by //​Prof.Dr.Eng. J.H. Knowsall// ​chair of nation Z **TheG&​TheG** ​Committee ​is not included as you didn't know it existed ("Oh My God, how can one possibly ​graduate without that? I mean, really..."​) 
-  ​Companies will ignore it as well but will set a parallel parrot bogus test that costs a lot of money because it shows that the candidate is an entrepreneurial type and will do whatever to get the job.+  ​Companies will ignore it as well but will set a parallel parrot bogus test that costs a lot of money because it shows that the candidate is an entrepreneurial type and will do whatever to get the job (including answering questions wrong).
  
-==== Personal ​Impact ====+==== Impact ​on Your Personal Life ====
  
 From your personal perspective,​ dropping few words on it helps securing a cushy academic job if the head of a degree program sitting in the interview panel has an accreditation meeting coming soon (but beware it will severely backfire if accreditation just passed). From your personal perspective,​ dropping few words on it helps securing a cushy academic job if the head of a degree program sitting in the interview panel has an accreditation meeting coming soon (but beware it will severely backfire if accreditation just passed).
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-==== Homeworks ====+==== Homeworks ​for the reader====
  
-Homework for the reader +  ​- Prove that finding similar topics in "​Software and Security Engineering"​ Syllabi as taught by X [LeftRight Fellow, impact award, and most cited paper ever] and by Y [UpsandDowns Fellow, with an equally ​ sizeable pile of impact awards and cited papers] ​is NP-hard
-  ​- Prove that finding similar topics in "​Software and Security Engineering"​ Syllabi as taught by B. Nuseibeh ​and by R. Anderson ​is NP-hard+
   - Prove by DNA sequencing that members of accreditation bodies and shopkeepers selling picks and mules to gold diggers in California belong to the same genetic pool.   - Prove by DNA sequencing that members of accreditation bodies and shopkeepers selling picks and mules to gold diggers in California belong to the same genetic pool.
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