Can humanitarian open-source software development draw new students to CS?
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Open Source Software Development*
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0097-8418
DOI: 10.1145/1227504.1227495