2018-11-072018-11-072018-10-012018-10-01XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students archive, Volume 25 (Issue 1), Fall 2018, pp. 56-59.1528-49721528-4980https://hdl.handle.net/10292/11960Computing is still a young discipline with new topics emerging daily, spawning an extended family of disciplines, which makes negotiating a curriculum an inherently fraught process that will not meet everybody's needs.Copyright is held by the author.The Arbitrary Nature of Computing CurriculaJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.1145/3265905