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This paper is part of an ongoing research which intends to analyze the experiences of beginner students of the Computer Science Careers of the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics of the Córdoba National University. During the first year of these careers the desertion level is high and there is an important percentage of students who can't past the exams. Using the situated learning theory proposed by Lave and Wenger (Lave, 1988; Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998) we want to describe the learning process that takes place during the encounter between beginner students just arrived to the university and the faculty community itself. We present a preliminary data analysis describing two analytic categories emerged in this first instance: «student- teacher relations and the legitimacies construction» and «identities construction». [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]