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SIGCSE
2002
ACM
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13 years 4 months ago
Women in CS and biology
Common departmental characteristics and practices in computer science and biology/life science are compared for 46 departments at 23 Virginia colleges and universities. The goal o...
Joanne McGrath Cohoon
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
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14 years 3 days ago
Women in CS: an evaluation of three promising practices
Historically, Harvey Mudd College (HMC) has had very little success attracting women to the study of computer science: women have chosen CS less than any other field of study. In...
Christine Alvarado, Zachary Dodds
SIGCSE
2004
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
A CS1 course designed to address interests of women
Literature on women in computing points out that computer science is not being effective at attracting and retain
Lauren Rich, Heather Perry, Mark Guzdial
ITICSE
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
When CS 1 is biology 1: crossdisciplinary collaboration as CS context
We present the curriculum, deployment, and initial evaluation of a course, BioCS1, designed to serve as CS1 and Biology1 for majors of either (or both) disciplines. Cotaught by pr...
Zachary Dodds, Ran Libeskind-Hadas, Eliot Bush