Contrasting women's experiences in computer science at different institutions

Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 63-64

  Zur, Ela ^a   Irani, Lilly ^b   Barker, Lecia ^c   Guzdial, Mark ^d  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Gender issues; Success rates

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CURRICULA; DATA REDUCTION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

CLASSROOMS; CS1; GENDER ISSUES; SUCCESS RATES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 20444506103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1047124.1047379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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