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Mobile phones in the classroom: if you can't beat them, join them

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 4

Pages 142 - 146

https://doi.org/10.1145/1498765.1498803

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A Direct Path to Dependable Software

April 2009

134 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1498765

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