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Roots of 'program' revisited

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Considering the fundamental nature and malleability of programming.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 4
April 2021
164 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/3458337
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  • (2022)What We Talk About When We Talk About ProgramsProceedings of the 2022 Working Group Reports on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education10.1145/3571785.3574125(117-164)Online publication date: 27-Dec-2022
  • (2021)Mathematics, Logic, and Engineering in ComputingIEEE Annals of the History of Computing10.1109/MAHC.2021.313211043:4(97-100)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2021

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