Conference Session

Technical Session M1

Collection

2022 First-Year Engineering Experience

Authors

Stephany Coffman-Wolph, Ohio Northern University; John K. Estell, Ohio Northern University

Tagged Topics

Diversity, Works In Progress

, another issue raised concerns the erasure of the female experience through suchmeans as the inability of gender selection by the user and problem scenarios falling within themale domain [3]. As women are stakeholders in educational software and make up roughly halfof the audience, it is essential they see themselves being positively represented.The project described here serves as the culminating design experience in the first-yearprogramming sequence at Ohio Northern University (ONU). For context, Programming 1 isoffered in the first semester, where students learn the basics of sequence, selection, and iterationusing C++. The following Programming 2 course builds upon this foundation, using Java as thelanguage for introducing the object-oriented