"Georgia Computes!": Improving the computing education pipeline

SIGCSE'09 - Proceedings of the 40th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 86-90

  Bruckman, Amy ^a   Biggers, Maureen ^a   Ericson, Barbara ^a   McKlin, Tom ^a   Dimond, Jill ^a   DiSalvo, Betsy ^a   Hewner, Mike ^a   Ni, Lijun ^a   Yardi, Sarita ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Computing education pipeline; Introductory courses; Summer camps

Indexed keywords

BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN COMPUTING; COMPUTING EDUCATION; COMPUTING EDUCATION PIPELINE; GEORGIA; INTRODUCTORY COURSE; NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS; SUMMER CAMP;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; PIPELINES;

EDUCATION COMPUTING;

EID: 77955143997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1508865.1508899     Document Type: Conference Paper

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