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Fagan, Bryan J.; Payne, Bryson R. – Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching and Learning Conference, 2017
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts over 8 million job openings in IT and computing, including 1 million cybersecurity postings, over the current five-year period. This paper presents lessons learned in preparing middle-school students in rural Georgia for future careers in computer science/ IT by teaching computer programming in the free,…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Teaching Methods, Computer Science Education, Open Source Technology
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Mangiafico, Salvatore S. – Journal of Extension, 2013
One option for Extension professionals wishing to use free statistical software is to use online calculators, which are useful for common, simple analyses. A second option is to use a free computing environment capable of performing statistical analyses, like R-project. R-project is free, cross-platform, powerful, and respected, but may be…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Extension Education, Educational Research, Computation