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Jeannette M. WingAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 49, Issue 3

Pages 33 - 35

https://doi.org/10.1145/1118178.1118215

Published: 01 March 2006 Publication History

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It represents a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use.

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Computational thinking
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy
  2. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information science education

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Communications of the ACM Volume 49, Issue 3

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March 2006

107 pages

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DOI:10.1145/1118178

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