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Computing as a discipline

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The final report of the Task Force on the Core of Computer Science presents a new intellectual framework for the discipline of computing and a new basis for computing curricula. This report has been endorsed and approved for release by the ACM Education Board.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 32, Issue 1
          Jan. 1989
          138 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/63238
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