WProjects: Data-centric web development for female nonprogrammers

Nicole L. Harshbarger; Mary Beth Rosson

doi:10.1109/VLHCC.2012.6344484

WProjects: Data-centric web development for female nonprogrammers

Nicole L. Harshbarger, Mary Beth Rosson

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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Abstract

We evaluated the impacts of hands-on web development workshops organized for female undergraduates who had no programming background. In five groups ranging from 2-8 participants, the women used a special-purpose tool (wProjects) to edit database tables, build queries, and embed the queries in web pages. We gathered background information on a pre-test and assessed knowledge and perceptions in a post-test. In general, the students were successful, enjoyed the projects, and their attitudes about computer-related careers were enhanced. We discuss the potential for workshops such as these in light of the general problem of decreasing females in computer-related professions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2012
Pages	67-70
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2012.6344484
State	Published - 2012
Event	2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2012 - Innsbruck, Austria Duration: Sep 30 2012 → Oct 4 2012

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Other	2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2012
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Innsbruck
Period	9/30/12 → 10/4/12

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Computational Theory and Mathematics
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Harshbarger, NL & Rosson, MB 2012, WProjects: Data-centric web development for female nonprogrammers. in Proceedings - 2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2012., 6344484, pp. 67-70, 2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2012, Innsbruck, Austria, 9/30/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2012.6344484

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