cs4fn.org: Enthusing Students about Computer Science
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cs4fn is an international campaign to stimulate the interest of young people in computer science. It consists of a website, print magazine and live shows. In this paper, we provide an overview of the early progress of the project. We discuss its aims including the core message we are intending to convey and our approach to evaluation. We then discuss both quantitative and qualitative evaluation data from the first stage of the project. We focus in this paper on the website, before drawing general conclusions about success factors in running such a successful outreach campaign.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009