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The CS teacher shortage

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How can we fill more computer science classrooms when there just aren't enough teachers to go around?

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 10
      October 2019
      89 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3363418
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