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Browsing Quaestiones Informaticae Vol 4 No 1 by Issue Date

Browsing Quaestiones Informaticae Vol 4 No 1 by Issue Date

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  • The SECD Machine : An Introduction 
    Dempster, Robert (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1986)
    The S(tack), E(nvironment), C(ontrol) and D(ump) machine was invented by Landin (1964) to perform the mechanical evaluation of symbolic expressions. The evaluation of an expression invariably involves the application of ...
  • An Alternative Development of the Vienna Data Structures 
    Philips, N.C.K. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1986)
    This paper presents an axiomatic specification of a data type which is shown to be equivalent to the Vienna data structures. The advantage of this alternative approach is its obvious simplicity.
  • Ways of Assessing Programming Skills 
    Bishop, J.M. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1986)
    The programming skills taught in first year computer science courses are more difficult to assess than the skills in older science courses because of the very large numbers of students involved coupled with material ...
  • Modeller : a DSS for experimental study of Human-computer interaction 
    Finnie, G.R. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1986)
    This paper describes the structure of a simple nonprocedural financial modelling system designed to collect a variety of statistics on aspects of novice interaction with decision support systems. Some findings on the use ...
  • Research directions in information systems 
    Mende, J. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1986)
    The success of a research project depends upon the inputs and outputs selected by the researcher, a poor choice entailing useless results or wasted efforts.To avoid this one might consider the following alternatives: t. ...

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