Accession Number:
AD0661807
Title:
USE OF CTSS IN A TEACHING ENVIRONMENT,
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Corporate Author:
MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE PROJECT MAC
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Report Date:
1964-11-01
Pagination or Media Count:
35.0
Abstract:
Computer time-sharing offers many interesting possibilities for use in teaching computer technology. It might be expected that with proper hardware and software, students using time-sharing as a teaching machine could acquire proficiency in the fundamentals of programming more easily than using batch-processing. To test this hypothesis, the M.I.T. Department of Civil Engineering divided a freshman programming class, so that half the students used batch-processing methods, and half used the Project MAC time-sharing system to do the same work. The paper describes the experiment and its tentative results. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Humanities and History
- Computer Programming and Software
- Computer Hardware
- Computer Systems