Lessons learned from a PLTL-CS program

SIGCSE'11 - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 207-212

  Murphy, Christian ^a   Powell, Rita ^a   Parton, Kristen ^b   Cannon, Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Diversity; Emerging Scholars Program; Outreach; Peer Led Team Learning; Women in Computer Science

Indexed keywords

CS1; DIVERSITY; EMERGING SCHOLARS PROGRAM; OUTREACH; PEER-LED TEAM LEARNING; WOMEN IN COMPUTER SCIENCE;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 79954429439     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953226     Document Type: Conference Paper

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