Education From Interests to Values.
The article discusses the importance of motivation for pursuing a career in computer science, focusing on efforts to increase the diversity of computer science students. A program called Glitch Game Testers, run by the authors, is described, which recruits predominantly African-American male high sc...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 8; pp. 27 - 30 |
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| Formato: | Opinion |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Aug2011
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| Sumario: | The article discusses the importance of motivation for pursuing a career in computer science, focusing on efforts to increase the diversity of computer science students. A program called Glitch Game Testers, run by the authors, is described, which recruits predominantly African-American male high school students to test pre-release versions of video games. The effectiveness of this approach for increasing interest in computer science among the target population is described. |
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