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Computer-controlled display demonstrations of dynamic concepts in computer science

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Computer Science contains a large number of new concepts well outside most students' prior experience. An important characteristic of many of these concepts is their dynamic nature: the execution of a program, assignment of a value to a variable, change of machine state following an interrupt, convergence on a root. By using the computer itself as my demonstration apparatus, I propose to give the students personal exposure to the concepts in action. With a low-cost interactive CRT terminal and video projector, I can show various aspects of a program executing, for instance, at comparatively low investment in machine and people time.

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            cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
            ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 8, Issue 1
            Proceedings of the SIGCSE-SIGCUE joint symposium on Computer science education
            February 1976
            399 pages
            ISSN:0097-8418
            DOI:10.1145/952989
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              SIGCSE '76: Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE technical symposium on Computer science and education
              February 1976
              403 pages
              ISBN:9781450374125
              DOI:10.1145/800107

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