Analysis of a CS1 approach for attracting diverse and inexperienced students to computing majors

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 165-170

  Cohoon, Jim ^a   Tychonievich, Luther ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

CS1; Diversity; Education; Introductory computer science; Pedagogy; Programming; Teaching

Indexed keywords

CS1; DIVERSITY; INTRODUCTORY COMPUTER SCIENCE; PEDAGOGY; PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; EDUCATION COMPUTING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; STUDENTS;

TEACHING;

EID: 79954442243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1953163.1953217     Document Type: Conference Paper

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