Gender issues in computer education for application-oriented majors: A Chinese perspective

ICCSE 2010 - 5th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, Final Program and Book of Abstracts

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 403-408

  Long, Qingyun ^a   Hu, Qiaoduo ^a  

^a SHANGHAI BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

Author keywords

Application oriented undergraduate; Computer education; Gender; Solution

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION-ORIENTED; COMPUTER EDUCATION; COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION; GENDER; GENDER BALANCES; GENDER BIAS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; GENDER ISSUES; INFORMATION INDUSTRY; LEARNING STYLE; STATUS QUO;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; EDUCATION COMPUTING;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 78649410710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCSE.2010.5593598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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