Using APL to build science tutors for the high school level

ABSTRACT

This paper describes the procedure used to build several courses on the sciences for the high school level. An APL2 program has been written that accepts problem models, including explanation models, and uses them to generate many different problems. Each course is provided with about one hundred problem models, from which the student is invited to solve many thousands of different actual problems. The unique features of APL2 have made it very simple to develop the program that supports the courses. Versions exist for both DOS and Windows.

REFERENCES

• 1: Programas educativos recomendados, Promo-Soft, Madrid, 1997.
• 2: Bjarne Stroustrup, The C++ Programming Language, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1997
• 3: CUBERO, M.A.; ALFONSECA, M., Matemdticas (MA TES-I), Manual del tutor, generador y corrector de probtemas, Promo-Soft, Madrid, 1990.
• 4: CUBERO, M.A.; ALFONSECA, M., Matemdticas (MATES.2), Manual del t~tor, generador y corrector de problemas, Promo-Soft, Madrid, 1991.
• 5: CUBERO, M.A.; ALFONSECA, M., Matemdticas (MATES-3), Manual de{ t~tor, generador y corrector de problemas, Promo-Soft, Madrid, 1992.
• 6: CUBERO, M.A.; ALFONSECA, M., F{sica-1, Manual det tutor, generador y corrector de problemas, Promo-Soft, Madrid, 1994.
• 7: CUBERO, M.A.; ALFONSECA, M., Ffsica-2, Manual det tutor, generador y corrector de problemas, Promo-Soft, Madrid, 1995.
• 8: CUBERO, M.A.; ALFONSECA, M., Qufmica-1, Manual del tutor, generador y corrector de problemas, Promo-Soft, Madrid, 1996.
• 9: DIGITALK INC., Smallratk/V PM, Digitalk Inc., Los Angeles, 1990.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  F. Theory of Computation
  F.2 ANALYSIS OF ALGORITHMS AND PROBLEM COMPLEXITY

Additional Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION

General Terms:
Experimentation, Languages, Management