Novice programming comes of age

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 75-81

  Smith, David Canfield ^a   Cypher, Allen ^a   Tesler, Larry ^a  

^a Stagecast Software Inc   (United States)

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EID: 0042761615     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/330534.330544     Document Type: Article

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