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  1. Department of Applied Informatics, School of Information Sciences, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Stelios Xinogalos

  2. Department of Computer Systems and Communications, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Tomáš Pitner

  3. Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

    Miloš Savić & Mirjana Ivanović

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Xinogalos, S., Pitner, T., Savić, M., Ivanović, M. (2020). First Programming Language in Introductory Programming Courses, Role of. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_217

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