Increasing women's participation in computing at Harvey Mudd College

ACM Inroads

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 55-64

  Alvarado, Christine ^a   Dodds, Zachary ^a   Libeskind Hadas, Ran ^a  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadening participation; CS1; Women in computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870689252     PISSN: 21532184     EISSN: 21532192     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2381083.2381100     Document Type: Article

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