Coding Boot Camps
Coding Boot Camps
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编码训练营
DOI：
10.1145/3440891
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发表时间：
2021
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通讯作者：
Emily Green
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作者：
L. Lyon;Emily Green
受过大学教育的职场女性正在发现对计算机的潜在兴趣和天赋，这是由于计算机作为许多领域工作的组成部分的普遍存在，以及关于高薪计算机工作空缺数量的持续头条新闻。这些女性接受再培训的选择之一是所谓的编程新兵训练营，通过为期数周的密集课程教授编程技能。本文报道了一项针对加州硅谷地区的定性研究。我们使用社会认知职业理论（SCCT）来调查女性通过训练营学习场所进入计算机行业的更大背景，包括：蓬勃发展的技术劳动力环境，训练营作为学习环境，参加训练营的女性特征，编码训练营的再培训如何影响女性的计算自我效能感和结果期望，以及女性在训练营的绩效成就。采访数据收集自14名参加过新兵训练营的女性——第一次是在从新兵训练营毕业之前，第二次是在参加工作6个月之后。为了了解计算生态系统的背景，我们对6个训练营组织者/课程开发人员、7个行业招聘经理和14个大学计算机科学教师进行了单独采访。为了与参加新兵训练营的女性进行对比，我们采访了5名在大学主修计算机科学的女性和17名参加过新兵训练营的男性。对环境、人的输入、学习经验、自我效能、结果期望和绩效成就的SCCT机制进行了结构数据编码和分析。这里的研究结果表明，新兵训练营的培训可以成为受过大学教育的女性获得计算机工作和职业的催化剂，尽管这些入门级工作可能是对软件开发工作目标的妥协，并且不太可能导致在大型，知名，成熟的技术公司工作。
College-educated women in the workforce are discovering a latent interest in and aptitude for computing motivated by the prevalence of computing as an integral part of jobs in many fields as well as continued headlines about the number of unfilled, highly paid computing jobs. One of these women's choices for retraining are the so-called coding boot camps that teach programming skills through intensive multi-week courses. This article reports on a qualitative research study focused on the Silicon Valley area of California. We used social cognitive career theory (SCCT) to investigate the larger context surrounding women entering computing professions through boot camp learning sites, including: the environment of a booming technology workforce, boot camps as learning settings, the characteristics of women who attend boot camps, how retraining at a coding boot camp influence women's computing self-efficacy and outcome expectations, and the performance attainments of women at boot camps. Interview data was collected from 14 women who had attended boot camps—first before graduating from the boot camp and again after six months in the workforce. To contextualize the computing ecosystem, we conducted single interviews with 6 boot camp organizers/curriculum developers, 7 industry hiring managers, and 14 university computer science faculty. To provide a contrast with women at boot camps, we interviewed 5 women who majored in computer science at the university and with 17 men who had attended boot camps. Structural data coding and analysis was done focused on the SCCT mechanisms of environment, person inputs, learning experiences, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and performance attainments. Findings here demonstrate that training at a boot camp can be the catalyst for college-educated women to attain computing jobs and careers, although these entry-level jobs may be a compromise to the goal of a software development job and are unlikely to lead to a job at large, well-known, established technology companies.