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Re-imagining the first year of computing

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SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1734263.1734377

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SIGCSE '10: Proceedings of the 41st ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2010

618 pages

ISBN:9781450300063

DOI:10.1145/1734263

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Xavier University
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University of British Columbia
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Carnegie Mellon University
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Hiram College

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