Activities to attract high school girls to computer science

SIGCSE Bulletin (Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education)

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 373-377

  Rodger, Susan H ^a   Walker, Ellen L ^b  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DESKTOP PUBLISHING; EDUCATION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

HANDS ON ACTIVITIES; HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 0029701671     PISSN: 00978418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/236462.236583     Document Type: Article

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