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Reaching future computer scientists

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Think teachers, not students.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 4
April 2011
139 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1924421
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