Suggests practical measures for evaluating computer hardware. (JL)

Researchers tested students in five areas believed to be related to success in computer science and then correlated these with age, sex, year in college, hours employed, previous computer experience, and estimated high school and college performance. (JM)

Presents a lesson plan for showing children how to operate a TRS-80 Color Computer. (SJL)

An energy management system uses a daily computer printout to compare meter use with expected use in the Mesquite Independent School District located in the Dallas suburbs. (Author/MLF)

Rented remote computer terminals are being used in a pilot program that has reduced the amount of time school officials spend doing routine clerical duties. (Author/MLF)

Describes a course that uses a network of microcomputers to teach students machine language and assembler programing. The course is intended to teach what the computer can do and what its limitations are, understandings that are often obscured when students work in high-level programing languages. (Author/IRT)

System design can be improved through the participation of the people who will eventually use the system, if they can be provided with the necessary skills. A framework for such an approach to system design is described.

A discipline in which scientists seek to simulate and synthesize lifelike behaviors within computers, chemical mixtures, and other media is discussed. A computer program with self-replicating digital "organisms" that evolve as they compete for computer time and memory is described. (KR)

Reviews commonly accepted notions of information value from the perspective of a computer scientist and suggests the importance of using an economic commodity value approach as the most meaningful way to establish information value. Information value as use, as traffic, and as commodity are considered. (Contains 24 references.) (LRW)

Defines information technology (IT) as the study, design, development, implementation, support, or management of computer-based information systems. Points out that there is a shortage of qualified workers in IT and describes the eight major job groups listing sample job titles and descriptions. (JOW)

A study of 24 scientific articles in the South African Computer Journal compared four term-weighting schemes for detecting information-rich passages in texts. Results demonstrated that word categories and frequency-derived weights were closely correlated but that weighting according to first mention theory (cue-method) and frequency-based weights…

This paper describes a "learning community" designed for sophomore computer science majors who are simultaneously studying discrete mathematics. The learning community consists of three courses: Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures and an Integrative Seminar/Lab. The seminar functions as a link that integrates the two disciplines. Participation…

Pascal's Triangle is named for the seventeenth-century French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal (the same person for whom the computer programming language is named). Students are generally introduced to Pascal's Triangle in an algebra or precalculus class in which the Binomial Theorem is presented. This article, presents a new method…

The paper uses Ludwig Wittgenstein's theories about the relationship between thought, language, and objects of the world to explore the assumption that OO-thinking resembles natural thinking. The paper imports from research in linguistic philosophy to computer science education research. I show how UML class diagrams (i.e., an artificial…

This is the fourth report in a series of five reports resulting from the Texas College and Career Readiness Initiative (TCCRI) established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) under contract with the Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC). The purpose of the TCCRI is the Facilitation of the Development and Implementation…