Computer skills of first-year students at a South African University

Proceedings of the 2009 Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 88-92

  Nash, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Computer literacy; Computer skills; Gender; Race

Indexed keywords

BASIC TRAINING; COMPUTER LITERACY; COMPUTER SKILL; COMPUTER SKILLS; COMPUTER TRAINING; COURSE MATERIAL; FIRST YEAR STUDENTS; GENDER; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; RACE; UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 71049154619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1562741.1562752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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