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Toy projects considered harmful

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It is valuable to improve upon the sample code we provide to students. But the deeper challenge is to create a context in which student programming matters.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 7
          Services science
          July 2006
          140 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/1139922
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