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2018
Volume 71, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

Some computer code bootcamps offer racially marginalized adults training in computer programming to assist in their social mobility. Many African American adults have little to no prior experience with programming. Literacy life history interviews show that the procedural literacy adult students practiced out of school scaffolded their learning coding literacy.

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