This book provides a professional and comprehensive approach to solving the problems inherent in computer software development, operations, and maintenance. The information is structured and written so that people with varying experience in data processing can benefit from it. It is intended for executives whose activities interrelate with data…

Presented is a detailed account of developing an EDITOR program, written in Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) BASIC, for the Heathkit H11 and for the TRS-80 Level II personal computers. It requires a disk system and a BASIC interpreter with some elementary string-handling routines. (KC)

This paper reports the results of two studies of the readability of FORTRAN programs, i.e., the ease with which a programmer can read and analyze programs already written, particularly in the processes of maintenance and debugging. In the first study, low-level characteristics of 202 FORTRAN programs stored on the general-use UNIX systems at Bell…

This handbook lists step-by-step the procedures for making Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) runs on the interactive computer. The programs follow the Loma Linda University Revision 2.1 as adapted for the Data General Eclipse Systems. The four-step process includes instructions for developing the codebook, building the data and…

These instructional materials are intended as a guide for the instructor of a block course in introductory vocational data processing. A textbook and supplementary materials of the instructor's choice would probably be used in conjunction with these materials. Topics covered in the 11 units are background and uses of data processing, input/output…

An introduction to Fortran programming specifically for social science statistical and routine data processing is provided. The first two sections of the manual describe the components of computer hardware and software. Topics include input, output, and mass storage devices; central memory; central processing unit; internal storage of data; and…

The strategy for PASP proposed here is characterized by the: (1) ad hoc nature of some of its parts; (2) use of a linear string grammar, (3) definition of probability rules, (4) translation of those rules into a priori rules for the string grammar, (5) context sensitivity, and (6) flexibility of the system. (Author/KM)

Multivariable queries can be processed in the data base management system INGRES. The general procedure is to decompose the query into a sequence of one-variable queries using two processes. One process is reduction which requires breaking off components of the query which are joined to it by a single variable. The other process,…

As part of a short (five-hour) "package" or "module" of computer instruction, this booklet can be inserted into existing courses. It is aimed at the problem of giving large numbers of liberal-arts students a "literacy" in computation -- cheaply, feasibly, and with minimum facilities, staff, and administrative…

The field of computer applications is becoming extensive, and the researcher can take advantage of the literary use of computers. Article lists the wide variety of tasks the computer tackles concerning literature and linguistics. (RK)

This is a progress report on a project attempting to design a system of compacting text for storage appropriate to disc oriented demand searching. After noting a number of previously designed methods of compression, it offers a tentative solution which couples a dictionary of most frequent character-strings with a set of variable-length codes. The…

Data analysis and supporting computer software systems are studied. The idea of data analysis as an experimental science involving data-gathering and theory building is developed. Language's role as a determinant of meaningful theory and the informativeness of a language and data base pair are studied, along with the static and dynamic aspects of…

Describes a strategy for the design of social science software, concentrating particularly on the nature of packages, languages, data structures, and characteristics of procedures. (Author)