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    Mary E. Webb

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  1. Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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    Sigrid Schubert

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Webb, M.E. (2020). Curricula in Computer Science. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10576-1_7

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