Approaches to Diversifying the Programmer Community-The Case of the Girls Coding Day

Huilian Sophie Qiu, Yang Wen, Alexander Nolte

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Abstract

In this paper, we present Girls Coding Day, a one-day workshop designed to bring in young female adults who did not study computer science at college but wished to try out or learn computer programming. To study the effectiveness of the workshop on participants' future intention on learning programming and perceived coding ability, we conducted 2 separate surveys of participants of 32 Girls Coding Day events that happened between 2017 and 2019. Our contributions include participants' motivations; components in our workshop design that correlate with participants' learning outcomes; and implications for designs of similar events in the future.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 13th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, CHASE 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages91-100
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781665414098
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2021
Event13th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, CHASE 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: May 20 2021May 21 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2021 IEEE/ACM 13th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, CHASE 2021

Conference

Conference13th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering, CHASE 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period5/20/215/21/21

Keywords

  • code camps
  • gender diversity
  • software engineering education

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Communication

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