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Computer science education in the 21st century

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To draw students to CS, we must first look to create a curriculum that reflects the exciting opportunities and challenges of IT today versus the 1970s. Future students and faculty would greatly benefit from a reinvigorated CS curriculum.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 49, Issue 3
        Self managed systems
        March 2006
        107 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/1118178
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