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The relationship between pre-college mathematics and the undergraduate computer science curricula

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            cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
            ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 23, Issue 1
            Mar. 1991
            369 pages
            ISSN:0097-8418
            DOI:10.1145/107005
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              SIGCSE '91: Proceedings of the twenty-second SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
              March 1991
              392 pages
              ISBN:0897913779
              DOI:10.1145/107004

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