Forming a women's computer science support group

SIGCSE 2007: 38th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 400-404

  Beck, Jon ^a  

^a TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Support groups; Under graduate education; Women in CS

Indexed keywords

CURRICULA; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

GENDER DIFFERENCES; SUPPORT GROUPS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 34748863481     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1227310.1227451     Document Type: Conference Paper

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