Underrepresentation in CS isn’t about lack of interest, but lack of access

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"But less than half of high schools that black students attend even offer computer science courses."

Would have been nice to include a link to a source for that. I would have been interested in seeing the proportion of "white/asian" high schools that do have CS courses.

Also, kind of unrelated but I'm curious, can a recent high school student summarize what one actually does during a high school CS course?

Not a recent high school student (my HS didn't offer AP CS classes :)), but formerly worked at Code.org on the curriculum frontend. Here's the Code.org AP Computer Science Principles curriculum: https://code.org/educate/csp

& PDF with rundown of what is covered on page 1: https://code.org/files/CSPSyllabusApril2016.pdf

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