Inspiring students to pursue computing degrees

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 67-71

  Akbulut, Asli Yagmur ^a   Looney, Clayton Arlen ^b  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; STUDENTS;

COMPUTING COURSE; PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE;

CURRICULA;

EID: 34848895988     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1290958.1290964     Document Type: Article

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