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SIGCSE
1996
ACM
166views Education» more  SIGCSE 1996»
13 years 10 months ago
Activities to attract high school girls to computer science
We present several activities used in the two-week PipeLINK summer program for high school girls. These hands-on activities and interactive talks, presented mostly by female facul...
Susan H. Rodger, Ellen Lowenfeld Walker
VL
2006
IEEE
153views Visual Languages» more  VL 2006»
14 years 18 days ago
Lessons Learned from Designing a Programming System to Support Middle School Girls Creating Animated Stories
Traditional approaches to teaching computer science are often unsuccessful in attracting girls into the discipline. Our hypothesis is that presenting computer programming as a mea...
Caitlin Kelleher, Randy Pausch
SIGCSE
2010
ACM
181views Education» more  SIGCSE 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Internationalization of computer science education
Internationalization of computer science education involves incorporating awareness, knowledge and skills of professional life in a global environment. Through an NSF CPATH grant1...
Sarah A. Douglas, Arthur M. Farley, Ginnie Lo, And...
ACSC
2008
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Informatics olympiads: challenges in programming and algorithm design
The International Olympiad in Informatics is a worldwide contest for high school students, with a strong focus on creativity and ingenuity in algorithm design. Here we describe th...
Benjamin A. Burton
SDM
2009
SIAM
180views Data Mining» more  SDM 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Structure and Dynamics of Research Collaboration in Computer Science.
Complex systems exhibit emergent patterns of behavior at different levels of organization. Powerful network analysis methods, developed in physics and social sciences, have been s...
Andre Nash, Christian Bird, Earl T. Barr, Premkuma...