Mirror - Vol. 13, No. 13 - February 02, 1989

The Mirror (sometimes called the Fairfield Mirror) is the official student newspaper of Fairfield University, and is published weekly during the academic year (September - May). It runs from 1977 - the present; current issues are available online.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/archives-mirror/1277/thumbnail.jp

APT: A principled design for an animated view of program execution for novice programmers

This thesis is concerned with the principled design of a computational environment which depicts an animated view of program execution for novice programmers. We assert that a principled animated view of program execution should benefit novice programmers by: (i) helping students conceptualize what is happening when programs are executed; (ii) simplifying debugging through the presentation of bugs in a manner which the novice will understand; (iii) reducing program development time. The design is based on principles which have been extracted from three areas: (i) the problems that novices encounter when learning a programming language; (ii) the general design principles for computer systems; and (iii) systems which present a view of program execution. The design principles have been embodied in three 'canned stepper displays for Prolog, Lisp and 6502 Assembler. These prototypes, called APT-0 (Animated Program Tracer), demonstrate that the design principles can be broadly applied to procedural and declarative; low and high level languages. Protocol data was collected from subjects using the prototypes in order to check the direction of the research and to suggest improvements in the design. These improvements have been incorporated in a real implementation of APT for Prolog. This principled approach embodied by APT provides two important facilities which have previously not been available, firstly a means of demonstrating dynamic programming concepts such as variable binding, recursion, and backtracking, and secondly a debugging tool which allows novices to step through their own code watching the virtual machine in action. This moves towards simplifying the novice's debugging environment by supplying program execution information in a form that the novice can easily assimilate. An experiment into the misconceptions novices hold concerning the execution of Prolog programs shows that the order of database search, and the concepts of variable binding, unification and backtracking are poorly understood. A further experiment was conducted which looked at the effect that APT had on the ability of novice Prolog programmers to understand the execution of Prolog programs. This demonstrated that the performance of subjects significantly increased after being shown demonstrations of the execution of Prolog programs on APT, while the control group who saw no demonstration showed no improvement. The experimental evidence demonstrates the potential of APT, and the principled approach which it embodies, to communicate run-time information to novice programmers, increasing their understanding of the dynamic aspects of the Prolog interpreter. APT, uses an object centred representation, is built on top of a Prolog interpreter and environment, and is implemented in Common Lisp and Zeta Lisp and runs on the Symbolics 3600 range of machines

Southern Accent September 1982 - April 1983

Southern Adventist University\u27s newspaper, Southern Accent, for the academic year of 1982-1983.https://knowledge.e.southern.edu/southern_accent/1058/thumbnail.jp

Bowdoin Orient v.135, no.1-25 (2005-2006)

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Graduate thesis production book: "A View Fron The Bridge" by Arthur Miller

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Boston University. Note: Page 19 is missing

Communications

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article The Georgia Confederate Flag Dispute, by J. Michael Martinez in the summer 2008 issue along with the response of the author

Apocryphal theatre: practicing philosophies

Apocryphal Theatre: Practising Philosophies is a practice-based research project that consists of examples of my theatre practice (as research) and a written thesis. In this thesis, I argue that theatre can be seen to be an act of philosophy, by tessellating Maurice Merleau-Ponty's definition of philosophy as consisting of relearning to look at the world and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's proposition that philosophy is the creation of concepts, and pointing to post-WWII theatre artists whose work both fulfill this definition of philosophy and have informed Apocryphal Theatre's work. Included is an analysis of interviews with three contemporary theatre artists, Richard Foreman, Chris Goode and Ivana Muller, which explore their relationship with philosophical ideas in their work and how that informs their ability to create acts of philosophy. In practice, the research questions that underpin Apocryphal Theatre's research in labs, rehearsals and performance, are philosophical and create the potential for collective acts of philosophy. Apocryphal's practice as research as manifest in its ongoing lab and in the two productions included as part of this thesis, The Jesus Guy and Besides, you lose your soul or The History of Western Civilisation, will be analysed for the historical and philosophical bases of the primary concepts we have created through our research and the tools with which we embody them. The concepts and tools, which are used to address the research questions, are the witness, the grid, cutting up, levels of address and levels of presence. This thesis concludes that theatre and philosophy whilst separate disciplines can overlap in such a way that acts of philosophy can occur in the theatre, and that Apocryphal's theatrical project, which is collaborative, polyvocal and in performance invites the audience to be active witness/participants in the creation of the event, can be viewed as a collective act of philosophy

Teaching EFL on the radio: a genre-based study of language use in English teaching radio programmes in Taiwan

This thesis provides a genre-based study of the ways in which language is used in English teaching radio programmes (ETRPs) in Taiwan. Drawing upon the frameworks of genre analysis, pragmatics, systemic linguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, the ethnography of communication, and variation analysis, and research on classroom discourse and media discourse, ETRPs are studied as a genre by examining the relationship between context, communicative purposes, discourse structure and lexical-grammatical use. Nineteen days of ETRPs of different broadcasts, which were on air in 1998-2001 and which served senior high school students in Taiwan, were recorded, transcribed and coded for linguistic analyses. The pedagogical purposes of ETRPs are identified by investigating the educational needs of the listeners and the stated aims of the broadcasters. They are then studied in more detail by considering the communicative needs generated in the situational context. The purposes of ETRPs provide frameworks for the description and explanation - quantitative and qualitative - of the prominent genre features, above and below the level of sentence, of ETRPs. The accounts of the discourse structure of ETRPs include not only the generic structure (the macrostructure) but also the interaction structure of the genre; i.e. the interaction between the presenters in the generic structure of a monologue. This thesis also makes comparisons between various broadcasts of ETRPs and interprets listeners' perceptions of ETRPs in terms oftheir genre features. It concludes by considering applications ofthe findings to the fields of genre analysis and language teaching

The use of Eye Tracking Technology in Maritime High-Speed Craft Navigation

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