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Becoming a computer scientist

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 34, Issue 2

Pages 135 - 143

https://doi.org/10.1145/543812.543847

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 34, Issue 2

Women and Computing

June 2002

176 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/543812

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