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Searching for Computing's Soul: Professional Practice and the Future of Computing Education 寻找计算机的灵魂：专业实践与计算机教育的未来

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Global Computing Education Vol 1 Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI: 10.1145/3576882.3617908

Samuel Mann

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