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Integrating professionalism and workplace issues into the computing and information technology curriculum: report of the ITiCSE'99 working group on professionalism

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Joyce Currie Little,

Mary J. Granger,

Roger Boyle,

Jill Gerhardt-Powals,

W. Michael McCracken,

Grazyna Paliwoda,

Piotr SojaAuthors Info & Claims

ITiCSE-WGR '99: Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 106 - 120

https://doi.org/10.1145/349316.349558

Published: 01 December 1999 Publication History

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December 1999

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