The development and use of a mapping package for sixth form geography students. [ Comput. Educ. 3, 4 (1979), 367-380. ]
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Computing Reviews,
22(5: ),
190 -
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1981
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Book Review
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Mapping; High School Courses and Programs
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Computer Science
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English
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103-426-968
(Last edited on
2006/05/27 13:04:55 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
Secondary school students studying geography, meteorology, astronomy, and social science subjects involving demography often have a need to generate maps with isolines. Isolines are contour maps with irregular, closed figures of variables with the same values.
Neale describes several computer programs using BASIC in a DEC System to which are used by students to produce isoline maps and surface plots.
The teaching of isoline drawing can convey the decisionmaking process of choosing data points wisely to obtain consistency between maps. This is, of course, the issue of map resolution; the greater the number of points, the more
faithful the plotted product will be with respect to reality.
Neale's paper will be of value mainly to secondary school teachers who seek interesting applications to illustrate to students that computer systems have an enormous range and aid mankind. An added value is that the student can be encouraged to write programs, thereby expanding his consciousness with regard to computing. While both online entry and batch processing are referred to in the paper, one would expect in the US today that most secondary school installations would rely on stand-alone systems and not be exposed to the overnight wait for work products.
L. C. Silvern, Sedona, Ariz.
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