At the University of California, Berkeley, the introductory programming course, Computer Science 3: Introduction to Symbolic Programming, serves students with no programming experience and functions as a gatekeeper to further study of computer science or electrical engineering. This study documents patterns of attrition in this introductory computer science class from fourteen semesters, from the fall of 2002 to the spring of 2009. The purpose of the study is to document attrition and does not identify causal mechanisms for the patterns observed.
Title
Attrition in Introductory Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Published
2010-10-17
Full Collection Name
Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences Technical Reports
Other Identifiers
EECS-2010-132
Type
Text
Extent
19 p
Archive
The Engineering Library
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