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The bug that destroyed a rocket

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 33, Issue 2

Pages 58 - 59

https://doi.org/10.1145/571922.571958

Published: 01 June 2001 Publication History

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In the 2000 December issue of inroads, Michael Williams suggested that the failure of the Ariane 5 rocket launch could be used as a case study in teaching programming concepts. Here is an article I wrote several years ago in which I present the story of the Ariane 5 in terms used to teach introductory computer science.

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June 2001

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ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/571922

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