Computer-controlled display demonstrations of dynamic concepts in computer science

  • Authors:
  • David R. Levine

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.

  • Venue:
  • SIGCSE '76 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE-SIGCUE technical symposium on Computer science and education
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

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.