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Alice, middle schoolers & the imaginary worlds camps

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 39, Issue 1

Pages 307 - 311

https://doi.org/10.1145/1227504.1227418

Published: 07 March 2007 Publication History

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Research indicates that (i) many women who take CS1 feel less experienced than (and therefore at a disadvantage to) their male counterparts at computer programming, and that (ii) by the time they reach high school, many young women view computing as "geeky" and "for nerds." This paper describes our Imaginary Worlds Camps -- a summer program in which we use Carnegie Mellon's Alice software to address these problems before students reach high school. The preliminary results are quite encouraging.

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March 2007

581 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1227504

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SIGCSE '07: Proceedings of the 38th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
March 2007
634 pages
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DOI:10.1145/1227310
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