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Exploring Martian planetary images: C++ exercises for CS1

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Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education archive
Proceedings of the twenty-eighth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education table of contents

San Jose, California, United States

Pages: 30 - 34

Year of Publication: 1997

ISBN:0-89791-889-4

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Harriet J. Fell	Northeastern University, College of Computer Science, Boston, MA
Viera K. Proulx	Northeastern University, College of Computer Science, Boston, MA

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SIGCSE: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

We present a series of programming exercises based on photographic images of Mars collected by the NASA Viking Orbiter. Even without the news that there may once have been life on Mars [1], we feel that these exercises provide an exciting platform for exploring machine representation of data, presentation of data, and methods of storing and extracting data from files. All exercises are on the level easily mastered in the first programming course.

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	1	Chandler, David L., "Mars meteorite may hold evidence of microscopic life", The Boston Globe, August 7, 1996.
	2	Robert S. Wolff , Larry Yaeger, Visualization of natural phenomena, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 1993
	3	NASA Image web/ftp Site ftp://pdsimage.wr.usgs.gov/edroms/
	4	NASA Volume Information: tp:llpdsimage, wr.usgs.govlcdromslvo_2OO21volinf o.txt

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