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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 49 , Issue 12 (December 2006) table of contents
Software product line

COLUMN: Viewpoint table of contents

Pages: 25 - 27

Year of Publication: 2006

ISSN:0001-0782

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Douglas Blank

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

They also make it more hands-on, real, practical, and immediate, inspiring a new generation of scientists' deep interest in the field.

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	1	Guzdial, M. Introduction to Computing and Programming in Python: A Multimedia Approach. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2004; see also the Pyro Robotics Project pyrorobotics.org.
	2	Margolis, J. and Fisher, A. Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003.
	3	Richard E. Pattis , Jim Roberts , Mark Stehlik, Karel the robot (2nd ed.): a gentle introduction to the art of programming, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1995
	4	Vegso, J. Interest in CS as a major drops among incoming freshmen. Computing Research News 17, 3 (May 2005); www.cra.org/CRN/articles/may05/vegso.

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