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Some Useful Resources for CISP 300 Students

(none of these links have been tested...)

Learn to code

http://code.org/learn

A short history of the computer

http://www.softlord.com/comp/

Tutorial on flowcharting

http://www.smartdraw.com/tutorials/flowcharts/whatis.htm

Intro to programming languages, with machine code sample

http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~pjbk/pathways/cpp1/node20.html

Methods and mechanics of creating reliable user documentation

http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/professional/reliable.html

Using a modular approach to creating documentation

http://www.stc.org/confproceed/2000/PDFs/00012.PDF

An article about the Pasta Theory of Programming with examples

http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2006/11/pasta_theory_of_programming_an.html

An article about truth tables

http://www.math.csusb.edu/notes/logic/lognot/node1.html

Preparing a decision table

http://www.saintmarys.edu/~psmith/417lab3b.html

A brief biography of George Boole

http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/Museum/boole.html

Structured programming and looping with JavaScript

http://javascript.about.com/library/blstruc3.htm

Loops and other structures

http://www.felgall.com/struc.htm

Counter-controlled loops and sentinel-controlled loops

http://cis.stvincent.edu/html/tutorials/swd/basic/patterns.html

Tutorial on arrays in C and C++

http://www.augustcouncil.com/~tgibson/tutorial/arr.html

Tutorial on arrays in Java

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/arrays.html

A free online book chapter on arrays

http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/AoA/Windows/HTML/Arrays.html

Passing arrays as parameters

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/arrays.html

Coupling explanations with diagrams

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/145/coupling.html

Cohesion explanations with diagrams

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/145/cohesion.html

Control Breaks

http://cs.senecac.on.ca/~tmckenna/RPG544/controlbreak.htm

A page with links to interactive demos of a number of sorting methods

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/harrison/Java/sorting-demo.html

Interactive demo of sorting methods

http://www.brian-borowski.com/Sorting/

Merging sequential files

http://home.att.net/~s.k.vincent/CS491_5.htm

Tutorial on indexed sequential files

http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/rpgtutor/rpg021.htm

How to update a master file with a transaction file

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/98355

Insertion Sort Demonstration (and other sorts)

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