This Startup Uses the MIT App Inventor to Teach Girls Coding > Students learn computer science while designing and building apps

Photo caption: Paula Ferguson, a Code Girls United volunteer, oversees a student building a mobile app using the MIT App Inventor, a block-based visual programming language. Photo courtesy of Code Girls United. Article by Joanna Goodrich. IEEE Spectrum – April 30, 2024.

When Marianne Smith was teaching computer science in 2016 at Flathead Valley Community College, in Kalispell, Mont., the adjunct professor noticed the female students in her class were severely outnumbered, she says. Smith says she believed the disparity was because girls were not being introduced to science, technology, […]

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