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Factors effecting high school student's choice of computer science as a major
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Proceedings of the symposium on Computers and the quality of life table of contents
Philadelpia, Pennsylvania, United States
Pages: 25 - 31  
Year of Publication: 1996
ISBN:0-89791-827-4
Author
Richard O'Lander  St. John's University, Jamaica, New York
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SIGCAS: ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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