While we're all still figuring out how to best welcome and support
everyone in CS-ish things, maybe it should be mentioned that Racketeers
have some awareness and appreciation of familiar concerns, including
from a research perspective (starting at least 15 years ago):
High school teachers who implement HTDP report similar success stories
as colleges but in a less measurable manner. Still, the HTDP
curriculum has had an interesting measurable effect concerning female
students. Several instructors reported that female students like the
HtDP curriculum exceptionally well. In a controlled experiment, an
HTDP-trained instructor taught a conventional AP curriculum and the
Scheme curriculum to the same three classes of students. Together the
three classes consisted of over 70 students. While all students
preferred our approach to programming, the preference among females
was a stunning factor of four. An independent evaluator is now
investigating this aspect of the project in more depth.
-- Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram
Krishnamurthi, ``The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer
Science Curriculum,'' Journal of Functional Programming, 2004.
http://www.ccis.neu.edu/racket/pubs/jfp2004-fffk.pdf
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