U.S. Colleges Retool Programming Classes

May 26th, 2007 By GREG BLUESTEIN , Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- The lesson plan was called "Artificial Unintelligence," but it was written more like a comic book than a syllabus for a serious computer science class.

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