Women in CS: An evaluation of three promising practices

SIGCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 57-61

  Alvarado, Christine ^a   Dodds, Zachary ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Gender; Promising practices; Women in CS

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMS; QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77952198738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1734263.1734281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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