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Attracting women to tertiary computing courses

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 25, Issue 1
        March 1993
        307 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/169073
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        • cover image ACM Conferences
          SIGCSE '93: Proceedings of the twenty-fourth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
          April 1993
          311 pages
          ISBN:0897915658
          DOI:10.1145/169070
          • Chairmen:
          • Bruce J. Klein,
          • Cary Laxer,
          • Frank H. Young

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