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Communications of the ACM, Volume 56, Issue 9

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How can historians tell stories about software without focusing solely on the code itself?

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Software and souls; programs and packages
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
    2. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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September 2013

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Haigh T(2014)We have never been digitalCommunications of the ACM10.1145/264414857:9(24-28)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2644148

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