peterr@utcsrgv.UUCP (Peter Rowley) (10/07/83)
In the September 1983 Communications of the ACM, pp. A-32, A-33, you can
find information on, and a registration form for, the CHI '83 Human Factors
in Computing Systems conference, to be held in Boston December 12-15 (Mon-
Thurs) with tutorials on Monday, paper presentations Tues-Thurs.
There's too much to go into here, but there's a lot there for readers
of this group.
Also in the September CACM is an article by Bayman and Mayer describing
beginning programmers' misconceptions of BASIC statements. They tested
students' understandings of each BASIC statement, by asking what each
does, after exposing them to a six hour BASIC course. Sadly, this
course was not described in the paper, though they do name it: "BASIC
in Six Hours: A Self-Instruction Text" by J. Marcus, U. California at
Santa Barbara, Microcomputer Lab, 1980. Has anyone had experience with
this course? It'd be nice to have a brief description of it.
peter rowley, University of Toronto Department of C.S., Ontario Canada M5S 1A4
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