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The case for case studies of programming problems

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Marcia C. Linn,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 35, Issue 3

Pages 121 - 132

https://doi.org/10.1145/131295.131301

Published: 01 March 1992 Publication History

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March 1992

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DOI:10.1145/131295

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