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Introducing the computer at a small liberal arts college

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Description of a computer course to attract humanities oriented students. Current computer projects in Music, Art, Social Science and English were discussed. PL/I was the language used. In addition to the basic instructions, string manipulation and tape and disk processing were covered. Problems were geared to a non-mathematical group and covered alphabetic arrays and text scanning.

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      cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
      ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 2, Issue 3
      November 1970
      126 pages
      ISSN:0097-8418
      DOI:10.1145/873641
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