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Getting high school, college students interested in CS

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The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.

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Mark Guzdial considers how few U.S. high school students take computer science, while Robin K. Hill shares what she's learned in teaching first-year college computing students.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 62, Issue 12
          December 2019
          78 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/3372896
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