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Communications of the ACM, Volume 52, Issue 4

Pages 29 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/1498765.1498779

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Changing the way computer science is taught in college by encouraging students to develop solutions to socially relevant problems.

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Buckley, M. et al. Benefits of using socially relevant projects in computer science and engineering education. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference, 2004; http://www.sociallyrelevantcomputing.org/SIGCSE2004SociallyRelevantProjects.pdf.

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Buckley, M., Schindler, K., Kershner, H., and Alphonce, C. Using socially relevant projects in a capstone design course in computer engineering. In Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2004; http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1028174.971463.

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Nordlinger, N., Subramanian, D., and Buckley, M. Socially relevant computing. In Proceedings of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Conference, 2008; http://www.cs.rice.edu/~devika/SIGCSEFinal.pdf.

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Schindler, K., Buckley, M., Kershner, H., and Alphonce, C. Partnering with social service organizations to develop socially relevant projects in computer science and engineering. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, 2004; http://www.sociallyrelevantcomputing.org/ICEE2004.pdf.

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A Direct Path to Dependable Software

April 2009

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DOI:10.1145/1498765

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