Ilkay Yelmen¹ and Metin Zontul², ¹Istanbul Technical University, Turkey and ²Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey

The software technology is advancing rapidly over the years. In order to adapt to this advancement, the employees on software development should renew themselves consistently. During this rapid change, it is vital to train the proper software developer with respect to the criteria desired by the industry. Therefore, the curriculum of the programs related to software development at the universities should be revised according to software industry requirements. In this study, the core part of Software Development Curriculum is determined by applying association rule mining on Software Job ads in Turkey. The courses in the core part are chosen with respect to IEEE/ACM computer science curriculum. As a future study, it is also important to gather the academic personnel and the software company professionals to determine the compulsory and elective courses so that newly graduated software developers can easily adapt to the software projects in the market without taking extra training.

Association Rule Mining, IEEE/ACM Computer Science Curriculum, Software Development Curriculum, Software Job Ads