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Programming goes back to school

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Broadening participation by integrating game design into middle school curricula.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 5
            May 2012
            112 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2160718
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