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Volume 45 , Issue 4 (April 2002) table of contents
Supporting community and building social capital

COLUMN: Log on education table of contents

Pages: 17 - 21

Year of Publication: 2002

ISSN:0001-0782

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Mark Guzdial	Georgia Institute of Technology
Elliot Soloway	University of Michigan

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Preparing a new strategy for teaching introductory computer programming.

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