Still A Stranger Here: Attitudes Among Secondary School Students Towards Computer Science

Proceedings of the Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiSCE)

Volumn 8, Issue , 2003, Pages 193-197

  Moorman, Phoenix ^a   Johnson, Elizabeth ^a  

^a XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Gender

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CURRICULA; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION; MARKETING; ONLINE SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER GAMES; UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS; GENDER; SCHOOLS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 1542377610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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