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The present state of historical content in computer science texts: a concern

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin archive
Volume 27 , Issue 4 (December 1995) table of contents

Pages: 43 - 50

Year of Publication: 1995

ISSN:0097-8418

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Kaila Katz

Department of Mathematics/Computer Science, Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, N.J.

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	18	Dorothy Stein, Ada: a life and a legacy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1985
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	Douglas Harms , Dave Berque, Using a PDP-11/10 to teach content and history in computer organization courses, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.33 n.1, p.209-213, March 2001
	Judith Gal-Ezer , David Harel, What (else) should CS educators know?, Communications of the ACM, v.41 n.9, p.77-84, Sept. 1998