How Do You Get Girls to Code?

The news media is commenting more and more often on the need for girls to join computer science courses in college and then to work in the field once they have graduated. For example, EdWeek reported in January 2015 that “girls remained underrepresented in 2014 [in the number of students taking the high school computer science Advanced Placement test for college credit], making up just 20 percent of total AP computer science test-takers, only slightly more than the 19 percent last year.”

So how do we get more girls into computer science? DevelopIntelligence tackles this question. It can be difficult …read more