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An advanced undergraduate course in applied computer science

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The purpose of this paper is to describe a senior level course in the applied computer science curriculum at Northern Illinois University. The course, Database and Data Communications, has been taught for four semesters, and enrollment has steadily grown.

The course has a number of purposes. The primary one is to acquaint students with the principles of modern database management and teleprocessing applications and to instill proficiency in the writing of application programs for at least two of the major software systems supporting such applications, IBM's Information Management System (IMS) and Customer Information Control System (CICS). A secondary purpose is to consolidate and extend knowledge and techniques learned in previous courses. Course content which fulfills this purpose includes structured programming in both assembler language and COBOL, applied data structures, and access methods not previously covered (BDAM and VSAM).

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  1. 1 CICS Application Programmer's Reference Manual, No. SH20-1047, IBM Corporation, Data Processing Division, White Plains, New York.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  2. 2 Examples in Programming, Computer Science, Northern Illinois University, 1975.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  3. 3 IBM OS Full American National Standard COBOL Compiler and Library, Version 4, Programmer's Guide, No. SC28-6456, IBM Corporation, Data Processing Division, White Plains, New York.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  4. 4 IMS/VS Application Programming Reference Manual, No. SH20-9026, IBM Corporation, Data Processing Division, White Plains, New York.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
  5. 5 VSAM Programmer's Guide, No. GC26-3838, IBM Corporation, Data Processing Division, White Plains, New York.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar

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        cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
        ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 9, Issue 3
        Special issue eighth technical symposium on computer science education
        Aug 1977
        82 pages
        ISSN:0097-8418
        DOI:10.1145/382175
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          SIGCSE '77: Proceedings of the eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
          February 1977
          82 pages
          ISBN:9781450374101
          DOI:10.1145/800106

        Copyright © 1977 ACM

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