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1. Introduction
Computing has undergone impressive development in recent decades, becoming the engine of scientific, technological, industrial, social, economic, and cultural development, significantly transforming our daily actions.
The emergence of the computer has marked a new era in human history that was impossible to imagine several decades ago. The vast number of applications that have been developed in recent years are transforming the development of all fields of knowledge, commerce in the globalized world we live in, the way we communicate, teaching-learning processes, and even the way we entertain ourselves.
To give an idea of the relevance and importance that this discipline has reached in our country, it is enough to mention that currently approximately more than 100 Computing degree programs are offered nationally. This without considering non-university higher technical programs that are available.
All these existing programs have computing as the core of their study but do so under more than 50 different names such as: Systems Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer and Systems Engineering, among others. Despite all of them targeting the same job market, it is at least surprising that it is not possible to find even two that share the same curriculum, even in the first year.
Commonly, during the 1970s, Computing developed within Science Faculties in most American, British, and other countries' universities. During the 1980s, computing groups in universities struggled to achieve academic legitimacy within their local context. Frequently, they transformed into Mathematics and Computing departments, until finally splitting into two separate departments of Mathematics and Computing in the 1990s. It is in this decade that a growing number of institutions recognized the pervasive influence of Computing, creating independent units as departments, schools, or institutes dedicated to this area of study, a change that has demonstrated both insight and foresight.
In Perú, an increasing number of higher education institutions have tried to follow the development of foreign universities (though not always in a very serious or successful manner), recognizing Computing as a field of study in itself, as well as its strategic importance in education, and creating departments, schools, or institutes dedicated to its study. The Facultad de Ciencias cannot be an exception to this change, in which there is already a relative delay compared to many educational institutions within and outside of Peru.