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Communications of the ACM, Volume 58, Issue 12

Pages 33 - 36

https://doi.org/10.1145/2835961

Published: 23 November 2015 Publication History

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Lessons learned from a decade of practice.

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1. Applied computing
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2. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
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December 2015

115 pages

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DOI:10.1145/2847579

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