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An applied computer science/systems programming approach to teaching data structures

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This paper describes and analyzes Math 464, a course in data structures at Northern Illinois University. The course is taught in keeping with the underlying philosophy of the university's computer science curriculum: it is an applications course of pragmatic nature.

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                cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
                ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 11, Issue 1
                Proceedings of the 10th SIGCSE symposium on Computer science education
                February 1979
                251 pages
                ISSN:0097-8418
                DOI:10.1145/953030
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                  SIGCSE '79: Proceedings of the tenth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
                  January 1979
                  251 pages
                  ISBN:9781450374316
                  DOI:10.1145/800126

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