The funnel that grew our CIS major in the CS desert

SIGCSE'08 - Proceedings of the 39th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 503-507

  Pearce, Janice ^a   Nakazawa, Mario ^a  

^a BEREA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer literacy; CS0; Enrollment; Pipeline; Retention

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE FACULTIES; COMPUTER LITERACY; CS0; ENROLLMENT; RETENTION; STUDENT RETENTIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; PIPELINES;

TEACHING;

EID: 57449093570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1352135.1352304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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