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Planning and implementing an internship program for undergraduate computer science students

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Ted Mims,

Raymond Folse,

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SIGCSE '88: Proceedings of the nineteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 168 - 170

https://doi.org/10.1145/52964.53005

Published: 01 February 1988 Publication History

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This paper describes successful efforts to implement an internship program in Computer Science. Details for planning, implementing, maintaining, and evaluating the program are presented.

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Planning and implementing an internship program for undergraduate computer science students
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
    2. Computing profession
      1. Computing occupations

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SIGCSE '88: Proceedings of the nineteenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

February 1988

316 pages

ISBN:089791256X

DOI:10.1145/52964

Editor:
Herbert L. Dershem
Hope College, Holland, MI

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 20, Issue 1
Feb. 1988
310 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/52965
Editor:
Herbert L. Dershem
Hope College, Holland, MI
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Published: 01 February 1988

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