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Teaching a hierarchical model of computation with animation software in the first course

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SIGCSE '94: Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education

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https://doi.org/10.1145/191029.191154

Published: 12 March 1994 Publication History

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DOI:10.1145/191029

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