Personal computers in the undergraduate curriculum

Abstract

The authors will show how off-the-shelf personal computers can be used in a variety of ways and at a number of levels to enrich the study of computers at small colleges. It is not our intent to suggest that personal computers replace larger mainframes in computer science courses. Rather, we intend to show how these computers can be used to give small colleges the ability to teach meaningful courses in subjects which until recently could be taught only at universities fortunate enough to possess large computer laboratories and their own hardware experts.