RECORD NO.:  3369529 INSPEC Abstract No: A89052349; C89035916
       AUTHOR:  Kadanoff, L.P.
  CORP SOURCE:  Chicago Univ., IL, USA
        TITLE:  Interactive computation for undergraduates
       SOURCE:  Physics Today, vol.41, no.12, p. 9,11
         ISSN:  0031-9228
        CODEN:  PHTOAD
PLACE OF PUBL:  USA
     LANGUAGE:  English
         YEAR:  Dec. 1988
    TREATMENT:  G General Review
     ABSTRACT:  The author concentrates upon style of computation, in which 
                the student or the scientist uses the computer interactively 
                to answer questions. In the best realization of this style, 
                a student works at a graphics terminal or workstation, 
                enters instructions to the computer in a 'higher level' 
                language like Basic, Fortran, Pascal, C or APL, and 
                immediately sees the result of these instructions in the 
                form of numbers and pictures. They should be posed to 
                students working in the setting of a computational lab, with 
                perhaps one lab partner. The two would share a workstation 
                or terminal, have available some device to produce hard 
                copy, and would have a lab assistant or professor available 
                to answer or pose questions (7 Refs.)
  DESCRIPTORS:  computer aided instruction
  IDENTIFIERS:  graphics terminal; workstation; computational lab; hard copy
  CLASS CODES:  A0150H (Instructional computer use); C7810C (Computer-aided 
                instruction)