Female students' experiences of programming: it's not all bad!

Authors:
Reena Pau;Wendy Hall;Marcus Grace;John Woollard
Affiliations:
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom;University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom;University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom;University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Venue:
Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Programming has been cited as a barrier for female students to enjoy and pursue computing as a career or at higher education. However, there are examples of good practice, which demonstrate that programming can act as a bridge rather than a barrier. As a result of surveying 103 students and interviewing 60 students from 3 different UK higher education institutions and this paper demonstrates that female students can enjoy programming and take it further for their careers.