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During the past few years, I have attended several professional meetings which have included panel discussions between representatives from industry and academia concerning computer science education. Industry usually claims that students graduate with ...

In recent years, as colleges and universities have established new interdisciplinary programs, students have tended increasingly to combine (or switch) academic fields as they pass from one degree level to the next. This has brought about a situation in ...

Women make up 51% of our population, yet they represent only 10% of those currently employed as scientists. Recognizing the underutilized scientific resource that women represent the congress of the United States directed the National Science Foundation ...

At Oklahoma State University ALGOL68 is taught to students whose background in programming consists primarily of programming in FORTRAN. Frequently, they have had some experience with PL/1 although it is not so extensive as their experience with ...

Program efficiency is usually considered from the point of view of optimizing code. Selecting a proper data structure can have a remarkable effect on the efficiency of the final program. In this paper it is shown how one problem can be solved in several ...

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 ...

The course described in this paper is intended for students who are not majoring in computer science or mathematics. In a typical semester students majoring in such diverse fields as dietetics, sociology, psychology, elementary education, accounting, ...

The purpose of this paper is to relate experience we have had with our first course in computer science at the College of William and Mary. Like many other universities, we have had to deal with increased student demand from outside departments, ...

During the spring semester of 1977 an experiment was undertaken to determine whether the introductory course in computer science could teach more that it has in the past. The experiment, as a whole, indicated that it is indeed possible to provide more ...

A simulator is presented that allows a student to quickly write a demand paging memory management system. The simulator provides a job stream, support routines (such as read a page into memory), extensive error checking and debugging, and performance ...

A computer hardware and design course is described which is oriented toward softies. The special problems of such a course are discussed, some solutions offered, and the students' responses are analyzed.

Although there is not universal agreement on a definition of computer science, I believe that it is the inclusion of a quantitative (mathematical) approach to our discipline that distinguishes “computer science” from “computer programming”. Mathematics ...

My father counseled me not to give advice to others. Inspite of that admonition, I have an irrepressible desire to make some highly subjective, potentially pompous remarks about introductory programming language textbooks.

During the past nine years I ...

Traditionally, examinations have served as evaluation tools for the instructor to aid in assigning grades and to detect concepts not yet mastered by students.

Questions requiring more information in the response than just a single word or number can ...

This paper reports on an experimental course taught by the author at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The motivation for the unusual structure of the course was to bolster student morale weakened by inadequate background. Students, whose performance in ...

During the past few years, a growing number of authors have begun to take exception to the previously unquestioned use of flowcharts as a program development tool. These criticisms of the traditional flowcharting methodology center around the claim that ...

Software development standards have been adopted in several professional software shops to facilitate the entire software development process. These standards encompass all aspects of software development, including design, documentation, coding and ...

This paper describes a two term junior level Applications Programming course. The goal of the course is to provide the guidance and tools a student needs in order to write medium to large sized programs and to provide the experience of working on a “...