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Computer science education for social good

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SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

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1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Computing education
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SIGCSE '13: Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2013

818 pages

ISBN:9781450318686

DOI:10.1145/2445196

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Colorado School of Mines
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Rochester Institute of Technology
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Haverford College
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Georgia Gwinnett College

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