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Why the U.S. is not ready for mandatory CS education

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Mark Guzdial considers the consequences of requiring all schoolchildren to study computer science.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 8
August 2014
92 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2632661
  • Editor:
  • Moshe Y. Vardi
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