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Python for beginners

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A survey found the language in use in introductory programming classes in the top U.S. computer science schools.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 58, Issue 3
            March 2015
            83 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2739250
            • Editor:
            • Moshe Y. Vardi
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