Teaching a female friendly RPRCC (real projects for real clients course) introduction to software development at the middle school, high school or freshman collage level
David Klappholz · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2010
Middle/high-school teacher attendees will learn, hands-on, how to teach a Real Projects for Real Clients Course (RPRCC) in which students work in teams to perform the interpersonal-interaction-intensive activities involved in doing the pre-programming work of designing/prototyping software to provide services to or solve problems for socially relevant clients. They will also learn how to recruit project clients, how to manage clients' expectations, and how to have the software implemented in later courses at their institutions, or by college-level teams involved in the RPRCC Initiative. For more information about the attractiveness of RPRCCs to girls and young women, see The PRCC Initiative Site (http://sites.google.com/site/therprccinitiative/).