Clive Thompson connects the early-1980s computer-science capacity crisis with academic filters that favored students who already arrived with substantial programming experience.

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"Clive Thompson connects the early-1980s computer-science capacity crisis with academic filters that favored students who already arrived with substantial programming experience."

Thompson links faculty shortages and increasingly restrictive entry requirements with the unequal pre-college programming experience documented by Margolis.

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Source title Coders

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

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