TY - JOUR
T1 - After-Hours Learning
T2 - Workshops for Professional Women to Learn Web Development
AU - Peña, Joslenne
AU - Hanrahan, Benjamin V.
AU - Rosson, Mary Beth
AU - Cole, Carmen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 ACM.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Many initiatives have focused on attracting girls and young women (K-12 or college) to computer science education. However, professional women who never learned to program have been largely ignored, despite the fact that such individuals may have many opportunities to benefit from enhanced skills and attitudes about computer programming. To provide a convenient learning space for this population, we created and evaluated the impacts of a nine-week web development workshop that was carefully designed to be both comfortable and engaging for this population. In this article, we report how the professionals' attitudes and skills grew over the course of the workshop and how they now expect to integrate these skills and attitudes into their everyday lives.
AB - Many initiatives have focused on attracting girls and young women (K-12 or college) to computer science education. However, professional women who never learned to program have been largely ignored, despite the fact that such individuals may have many opportunities to benefit from enhanced skills and attitudes about computer programming. To provide a convenient learning space for this population, we created and evaluated the impacts of a nine-week web development workshop that was carefully designed to be both comfortable and engaging for this population. In this article, we report how the professionals' attitudes and skills grew over the course of the workshop and how they now expect to integrate these skills and attitudes into their everyday lives.
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U2 - 10.1145/3446964
DO - 10.1145/3446964
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108018831
SN - 1946-6226
VL - 21
JO - ACM Transactions on Computing Education
JF - ACM Transactions on Computing Education
IS - 2
M1 - 3446964
ER -