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Cognitive strategies and looping constructs: an empirical study

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Volume 26 , Issue 11 (November 1983) table of contents

Pages: 853 - 860

Year of Publication: 1983

ISSN:0001-0782

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Elliot Soloway	Yale Univ., New Haven, CT
Jeffrey Bonar	Univ. of Massachusetts
Kate Ehrlich	Yale Univ., New Haven, CT

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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