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Creating a new generation of computational thinkers

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Experiences with a successful school program in Scotland.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 58, Issue 12
            December 2015
            115 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2847579
            • Editor:
            • Moshe Y. Vardi
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