Women catch up: Gender differences in learning programming concepts

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 17-21

  Murphy, Laurie ^a   Richards, Brad ^b   McCauley, Renée ^c   Morrison, Briana B ^d   Westbrook, Suzanne ^e   Fossum, Timothy ^f  

^a PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

^c School of Business

^d SOUTHERN POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT POTSDAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Card sort; Gender differences; Programming experience

Indexed keywords

CARD SORT; GENDER DIFFERENCES; PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE;

CURRICULA; LEARNING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 37849040169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121341.1121350     Document Type: Conference Paper

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