The effectiveness of structured walk-throughs in teaching introductory Cobol programming was empirically assessed with a sample of 215 undergraduate business administration majors. Cobol proficiency was measured by a final examination …
Ronald S. Lemos
Pages 335-340
An academic program at Harvey Mudd College, called the Clinic program, brings projects from industry on campus to be studied and solved by student teams. The objective of the Clinic is to provide students, working as small teams …
Stavros N. Busenberg, Wing C. Tam
Pages 341-345
This paper discusses a model for finding an efficient implementation of a business application system whose logical specifications have been determined in advance. The model views file and program design as a problem of systematically …
Steven Alter
Pages 345-353
Programming for distributed and other loosely coupled systems is a problem of growing interest. This paper describes an approach to distributed computing at the level of general purpose programming languages. Based on primitive …
Jerome A. Feldman
Pages 353-368
A cyclic-order property is defined for bodies bounded by smooth-curved faces. The property is shown to be useful for analyzing pictures of such bodies, particularly when the line data extracted from the pictures are imperfect …
R. Shapira, H. Freeman
Pages 368-375
Robert L. Ashenhurst
Pages 381-386
Daniel D. McCracken
Pages 333-334
