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Growing computer science education into a STEM education discipline

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Seeking to make computing education as available as mathematics or science education.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 59, Issue 11
      November 2016
      118 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3013530
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      • Moshe Y. Vardi
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