Bibliography

A collection of books, articles, and organizations that have influenced how we approach coding education.

Books

Caste: The Origins Of Our discontents - Isabel Wilkerson
Stuck At The Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing - Jane Margolis
Coding Literacy: How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing - Annette Vee
How To Be An Anti-Racist - Ibram X. Kendi
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for The New Jim Code - Ruha Benjamin

Articles & Reports

Universities aren’t preparing enough computer science teachers - Code.org (https://medium.com/@codeorg/universities-arent-preparing-enough-computer-science-teachers-dd5bc34a79aa)
The Leaky Pipeline: a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing the lack of diversity across the tech ecosystem (https://mk0kaporcenter5ld71a.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/KC18001_report_v6-1.pdf)
A biased attempt at measuring failure rates in introductory programming - Computing education research blog (https://computinged.wordpress.com/2014/09/30/)
33 States expand access to k-12 computer science education - Code.org (https://medium.com/@codeorg/32-states-expand-access-to-k-12-computer-science-education-in-2019-7d2357fe6f3d)
How programmers learn to code - My Broadband (https://mybroadband.co.za/news/smartphones/246583-how-programmers-learn-to-code.html)
Five Types of Racial Equity Advocates in Tech - Code2040 (https://medium.com/racial-equity-in-tech/five-types-of-racial-equity-advocates-in-tech-c72e5c384335)
Separating Programming Sheep from Non-Programming Goats - Coding Horror Blog (https://blog.codinghorror.com/separating-programming-sheep-from-non-programming-goats/)
The silver lining of computer science teacher shortages - Christensen Institute (https://www.christenseninstitute.org/blog/the-silver-lining-of-computer-science-teacher-shortages/)
Is Edtech Worsening or Righting the inequities in education - SXS Wedu Floor (https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-03-09-is-edtech-worsening-or-righting-inequities-in-education-from-the-sxswedu-floor)
The Difficulty of teaching programming languages and the benefits of hands on learning - Mark Guzdial, Philip Guo (https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/7/176215-the-difficulty-of-teaching-programming-languages-and-the-benefits-of-hands-on-learning/fulltext)
The Secret History of Women in Coding: Computer programming once had a much better gender balance than it does today. What went wrong? - Clive Thomas (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/magazine/women-coding-computer-programming.html)

Organizations and Sites we like