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Cognitive strategies and looping constructs: an empirical study

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Elliot Soloway,

Jeffrey Bonar,

Kate EhrlichAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 26, Issue 11

Pages 853 - 860

https://doi.org/10.1145/182.358436

Published: 01 November 1983 Publication History

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