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Cognitive strategies and looping constructs: an empirical study

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 26, Issue 11
        Nov. 1983
        203 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/182
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