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Writing about programming in CS1

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Students in CS1 were assigned to groups that met during class time to study one member's work on one complex programming problem. When the program was complete, each student wrote a paper describing various aspects of the program. The class response to the writing project was varied and intense.

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          cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
          ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 24, Issue 4
          Dec. 1992
          67 pages
          ISSN:0097-8418
          DOI:10.1145/141837
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