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The purpose of this book is to teach fundamentals of programming concepts and
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A book is like a window that allows you to look into the world. The window is
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BIS 2011 held in Pozna´n, Poland, was the 14th in a series of international conferences
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The Internet already is the broadest and most used source of legal information: in
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