Gender and Black Boxes in the Programming Curriculum

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 6-

  McKenna, Peter ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

black boxes; Gender; Human Factors; programming styles

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS; SURVEYING;

BLACK BOXES; GENDER; LEARNING; PROGRAMMING STYLES;

CURRICULA;

EID: 21244494023     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: 15314278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1060071.1060077     Document Type: Article

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