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How self-efficacy and gender issues affect software adoption and use

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        Communications of the ACM  Volume 46, Issue 9
        Why CS students need math
        September 2003
        244 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/903893
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