Syllabus data of Chinese and American universities

Supplementary material1.pdf shows the statistical description and analysis of the source universities and departments of the syllabus. Supplementary material2.xls shows the country, University and discipline descriptions of each syllabus data and their file names in the syllabus.zip. The syllabus data of computer related courses in Chinese universities are manually confirmed and counted according to the following steps. 1. search by keywords such as "Syllabus", "Course Syllabus" and "computer" in the browser; 2. manually confirm whether there is a syllabus document under the relevant website; 3. confirm the contents of the collected documents.

The effective Chinese syllabus data set collected in this study comes from 41 universities, including 49 different combinations of colleges and departments, a total of 1814 syllabus. Due to the large number of American syllabus published online, we collect data through automatic data crawling technology as follows. 1. obtain the top 250 American universities ranked by us news and world report in 2017 and determine their websites; 2. manually confirm all abbreviations related to computer; 3. finally, by combining the college website and the abbreviation of the college and department, the college website that may exist in relevant colleges and departments is traversed in turn, and the syllabus data is automatically captured.