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Do-It-Yourself Software.
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Cooper, Sylvia L. – Science Teacher, 1983
Suggestions for writing computer programs for instructional purposes are provided. Program listing for displaying a bar graph on a TRS-80 computer and listings for two subroutines (advancing frame and entering name on Apple computer) are included. (JN)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Graphs, Microcomputers, Programing
GrafTalk.
Long, Joseph W. – Microsystems, 1983
GrafTalk is a powerful, easy to use, business-oriented graphics package for producing pie, bar, and line-plot graphs. GrafTalk should run on nearly any CP/M-based system that drives a graphics device through serial/parallel output port. Discusses package installation, structure, documentation, and use, plotting scientific data, and comparison with…
Descriptors: Business, College Science, Computer Graphics, Computer Programs
Individual Graphing of Mathematical Functions.
Schiffer, Doug; Brooks, Sarah – Creative Computing, 1980
Presented are two computer programs which can be used to minimize the effort and time necessary to graph several individual functions. (TG)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Programs, Graphs, Higher Education
Psychological Perspectives for Software Science.
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Curtis, B.; And Others – Information Processing and Management, 1984
Discusses current use of psychological theory in software science and reviews recent developments in cognitive psychology relevant to programing (human information processing, expert-novice differences). Critique of Maurice Halstead's model of cognitive aspects of programing and a structured data flow perspective (control flow and data flow…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Software, Graphs, Models
Educational Software Best-Sellers in the Home Market.
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Wujcik, Anne – 1984
This overview of the home market for microcomputers and computer software presents a brief history of the development of the microcomputer and its use in the home. Factors which shape the home market are discussed, e.g., desire for improvement of educational skills, presence of children, previous experience with a computer, and decreasing prices.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Children, Computer Literacy, Computer Software
An Application of Programming and Mathematics: Writing a Computer Graphing Program.
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Waits, Bert; Demana, Franklin – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 1988
Suggests computer graphing as a topic for computer programing. Reviews Apple II computer graphics information and gives suggestions for writing the programs. Presents equations to help place information onto the screen with proper coordinates. (MVL)
Descriptors: Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Graphs, Instructional Materials
Around the Sun in a Graphing Calculator.
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Demana, Franklin; Waits, Bert K. – Mathematics Teacher, 1989
Discusses the use of graphing calculators for polar and parametric equations. Presents eight lines of the program for the graph of a parametric equation and 11 lines of the program for a graph of a polar equation. Illustrates the application of the programs for planetary motion and free-fall motion. (YP)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Computer Uses in Education, Equations (Mathematics), Graphing Calculators
Graphing Surfaces: A Student Project.
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Herron, Peter – AMATYC Review, 1989
Discusses a student project visualizing the surface of a function using computer graphics. Describes topics to complete the project, function and its domain, scaling, coordinate axes, projection of the surface, sketching the graph, plotting, changing the viewpoint, and rotating the axes. Provides a BASIC program using the rotation of the axes and…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Functions (Mathematics)