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Studying the lessons learned from creating high-demand computer science courses for non-computing majors.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 5
Security in the Browser
May 2009
132 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1506409
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Published: 01 May 2009
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