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Rediscovering the passion, beauty, joy and awe: making computing fun again

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Eric Roberts,

Daniel D. Garcia,

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SIGCSE '08: Proceedings of the 39th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 217 - 218

https://doi.org/10.1145/1352135.1352213

Published: 12 March 2008 Publication History

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Andrew McGettrick, Lillian Cassel, Mark Guzdial, and Eric Roberts. The Current Crisis in Computing: What Are the Real Issues? Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, TX, March 2007. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1227310.1227426.

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Grady Booch. Read'n, writ'n, 'rithmetic, and cod'n. Keynote address at the Thirty-Eighth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Houston, TX, March 2007. http://www.booch.com/architecture/blog/artifacts/Reading%20Writing%20Coding.ppt

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March 2008

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ISBN:9781595937995

DOI:10.1145/1352135

General Chairs:
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Haverford College
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Duke University
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Metropolitan State University
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Georgia Institute of Technology

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 40, Issue 1
SIGCSE 08
March 2008
549 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1352322
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