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How machine learning impacts the undergraduate computing curriculum

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The growing importance of machine learning creates challenging questions for computing education.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 11
      November 2018
      156 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3289258
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