Broadening accessibility to computer science for K-12 education

ITiCSE'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM SIGCSE Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 229-233

  Gardner, Mark K ^a   Feng, Wu Chun ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

K 12; Live CD; Storytelling alice; Virtual computing

Indexed keywords

CDS; COMPUTER ENGINEERING; ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS; K-12 EDUCATION; SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING; VIRGINIA; VIRTUAL COMPUTING; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INNOVATION;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 77955156327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1822090.1822155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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