A Survey of Computing in Private Liberal Arts Colleges

HL Dershem - The Journal of Data Education, 1979 - Taylor & Francis
There have been several surveys of computing course offerings [6, 10, 12), including a recent
one specifically of small liberal arts colleges [9]. One difficulty with these earlier surveys, …

Approximation of the Bessel eigenvalue problem by finite differences

HL Dershem - SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 1971 - SIAM
Difference equation problems are studied whose solutions are estimates of the solutions of
the eigenvalue problem \[\begin{gathered} Ly \equiv y'' - \frac{1}{x}y' + \frac{{v^2 }}{{x^2 }}y = \…

[BOOK][B] Approximation of Bessel's differential operator of fractional order by finite-difference operators

HL Dershem - 1969 - search.proquest.com
… A common method for obtaining L is to replace each deri vative in the second-order
differential … It is shown that for such a difference operator L, the solu tion u of the corresponding …

Tools for Web-based sorting animation

HL Dershem, P Brummund - Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE …, 1998 - dl.acm.org
There is a long and rich tradition of sort algorithm animations that have been used effectively
in instruction. This paper describes a new tool that combines the best of this tradition with …

Animation of Java linked lists

HL Dershem, RL McFall, N Uti - Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
Linked lists are an important component of the computer science curriculum. JVALL is a
software package that provides an animation of linked list operations that is fully compatible with …

Java class visualization for teaching object-oriented concepts

HL Dershem, J Vanderhyde - Proceedings of the twenty-ninth SIGCSE …, 1998 - dl.acm.org
Visualization is a useful tool in many areas of computer science education. This paper
describes the use of visualization in the introduction of object-oriented concepts. A Java …

[BOOK][B] Mathematics and Statistics

H Dershem, DA Smith - 1980 - academia.edu
This report is prinarily concerned rvith the nontraditional use of computers in undergraduate
courses in mathematics anal statlstics. For reasons explaineil befo $ r, vre make only …

[PDF][PDF] An experience component for undergraduate computer science education

HL Dershem - ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 1978 - dl.acm.org
There has been much discussion during the past few years concerning the responsiveness
of computer science education to the needs of industry (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), One of the …

[PDF][PDF] A Java function visualizer

HL Dershem, DE Parker, R Weinhold - Journal of Computing in Small …, 1999 - academia.edu
Visualization is an important tool for student learning. The Function Visualizer provides a
resource that permits the visualization of function calls for any set of Java functions. It provides …

[PDF][PDF] Finite state machine simulation in an introductory lab

R McFall, HL Dershem - Proceedings of the twenty-fifth SIGCSE …, 1994 - dl.acm.org
TUMS (TUring Machine Simulator) is a program that we have developed to make the process
of learning about finite state automata and Turing machines easier for the undergraduate …