• 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