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Levels of abstraction: pre-teens and career choices

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The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.

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Mark Guzdial writes about the need for programming languages to support multimedia at all levels. Judy Robertson shares insights about 12-year-old students' lack of understanding about computer science.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 12
            December 2012
            102 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2380656
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