Gender differences in beginning programming: An empirical study on improving performance parity

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Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 186-192

  Crews, Thad ^a   Butterfield, Jeff ^a  

^a WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Gender; Information; Programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986031630     PISSN: 10650741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10650740310507380     Document Type: Article

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