“Like Coming Home”: African Americans Tinkering and Playing toward a Computer Code Bootcamp

2020/02/01 by Antonio Byrd

paper · doi:10.58680/ccc202030502

crossref issued 2020/02/01 · crossref published 2020/02/01 · crossref published-print 2020/02/01 · crossref created 2023/08/15 · crossref deposited 2024/10/26 · crossref indexed 2026/07/31

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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