[Articles
by Walter G Spunde]
The Impact of APL on First Year Mathematics
Quote Quad, 25 (1), 1994, pps. 200-204
Proceedings
of the ACM SIGAPL International Conference on APL
(Antwerp, September, 1994)
Abstract
In 1993, the Australian Federal Government's Committee for the
Advancement of University Teaching (CAUT) funded a project to develop an
integrated computationally rich first year mathematics course built on
the use of APL as an integral part of the instruction. This article outlines
how the standard syllabus was amended to respond to the available computing
power for elucidating mathematical topics and what mathematical skills
were improved or neglected by the novel presentation.
