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"Like Coming Home": African Americans Tinkering and Playing toward a Computer Code Bootcamp.

Some computer code bootcamps offer racially marginalized adults training in computer programming to assist in their social mobility. Many African American adults have little to no prior experience with programming. Literacy life history interviews show that the procedural literacy adult students pra...

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Published in:College Composition & Communication Vol. 71; no. 3; pp. 426 - 453
Main Author: Byrd, Antonio
Format: Article
Published: National Council of Teachers of English Feb2020
Subjects:
Computer programming education
Ciphers
African Americans
Computer programming
Social mobility
Literacy
Learning
Social marginality
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Some computer code bootcamps offer racially marginalized adults training in computer programming to assist in their social mobility. Many African American adults have little to no prior experience with programming. Literacy life history interviews show that the procedural literacy adult students practiced out of school scaffolded their learning coding literacy.