DocumentCode
704895
Title
The Europe Code Week (CodeEU) initiative shaping the skills of future engineers
Author
Moreno-Leon, J. ; Robles, Gregorio
Author_Institution
Programamos.es, Sevilla, Spain
fYear
2015
fDate
18-20 March 2015
Firstpage
561
Lastpage
566
Abstract
The growth of employment opportunities in the information technology sector and the shortage of well-trained professionals in this field are a recurring theme in recent years in both Europe and North America. In this sense, research studies that analyse the causes of the reduction of students who are interested in computer science mainly point to young people being unaware of the type of tasks computer scientists perform. Therefore, in order to try to reverse this trend many types of initiatives have been organized seeking to bring the world of computing to children and adolescents.
Keywords
computer science education; programming; CodeEU initiative; Europe Code Week; computer science; employment opportunity; information technology sector; programming; Computers; Conferences; Encoding; Europe; Programming profession; CodeEU; Coding; Computational Thinking; Europe Code Week; Programming; Shortage of Computer Scientists;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location
Tallinn
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/EDUCON.2015.7096025
Filename
7096025
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