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Predicting the success of freshmen in a computer science major

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 27, Issue 11

Pages 1108 - 1113

https://doi.org/10.1145/1968.358288

Published: 05 November 1984 Publication History

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1. Human-centered computing
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