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An experience report on the effectiveness of five themed workshops at inspiring high school students to learn coding

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Nearchos Paspallis,

Irene Polycarpou,

Panayiotis Andreou,

Josephina Antoniou,

Paris Kaimakis,

Marios Raspopoulos,

Maria TerziAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE 2018: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

Pages 105 - 110

https://doi.org/10.1145/3197091.3197093

Published: 02 July 2018 Publication History

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Today there is a high demand for computing programmers, and at the same time a shortage of skilled professionals. This has triggered the creation of many initiatives in the past few years, with the aim of reversing the phenomenon. To achieve this, such events are designed to promote a more appealing image for programming, both as a profession and as a skill. This paper describes one such initiative, which uses a unique blend of differently themed, parallel workshops to motivate high school students to learn programming. With the use of questionnaires, we survey the participants and present our findings concerning the effectiveness of these workshops to engage the participants, to promote the value of coding, and to encourage the participants to consider a career in the field. We evaluate our results both at a general level, as well as by comparison among five individually themed workshops.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC54236.2022.00023

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An experience report on the effectiveness of five themed workshops at inspiring high school students to learn coding
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education

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ITiCSE 2018: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

July 2018

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ISBN:9781450357074

DOI:10.1145/3197091

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Irene Polycarpou
UCLan Cyprus, Cyprus
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Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
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Michal Armoni
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

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Paspallis NKasenides NPiki A(2022)A Software Architecture for Developing Distributed Games that Teach Coding and Algorithmic Thinking2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)10.1109/COMPSAC54236.2022.00023(101-110)Online publication date: Jun-2022
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