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“My Brain Does Not Function That Way”: Comparing Quilters' Perceptions and Motivations Towards Computing and Quilting.

Broadening participation informal stem education

Graves, Royer

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The systemic, mathematical, and procedural underpinnings of quilting make the domain a useful metaphor for introductory Computer Science (CS) education, although it is currently used primarily in K-16 educational settings. Considering informal CS education for adult women, we examine the potential depth of this metaphor by exploring how skilled craftspeople engage with and understand quilting-as-metaphor in the context of CS education. In this paper we report the findings of our first focus group with quilters to …