Middle school girls + games programming = information technology fluency

Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Information Technology Education, SIGITE 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 301-305

  Werner, Linda L ^a   Campe, Shannon ^b   Denner, Jill ^b  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b ETR ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

IT fluency; middle school girls; pair programming; project based program

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; GAME PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FLUENCIES; IT FLUENCY; MIDDLE SCHOOL; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; PROJECT-BASED;

STUDENTS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 34249700960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1095714.1095784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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