Edited by David Ahl, published 1976
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Cover - 2nd edition
Cover - 1st edition
Title page
About the Editor About David Ahl
Copyright information
Preface to the 2nd Edition
Acknowledgements
Covers Creative Computing cover art information
Volume 1 Cover Art Creative Computing cover art
Table of Contents
Editorials
Birth of a Magazine History of Creative Computing
A Computer in the Classroom?
Is Breaking Into A Timesharing System a Crime? Cracking, security
Where Are We Going? Goals for the human race
Computers in Education
What's Wrong With the Little Red Schoolhouse? Observations on education and learning
How to Cope With Your Computer frustration, flowcharts
Recent Trends in Mathematics Curriculum Research from 1964-1974, chart: Major Mathematics Curriculum Projects 1954-1974
CITALA An Exploration of Instructional Computing in a Two-Year College
Exper Sim: Experimental Simulation teaching research design through computer simulation, Sample Run: Imprinting Simulation
Monty Python meets Monte Cristo or French Disconnection IFIP 2nd World Conference on Computers in Education
IFIP Conference Report Interview with J. Hebenstreit
Transportability
The Parable of the Horse A diversion intended to produce a few horse laughs
Technical Transport Problems CONDUIT Project studies the process of sharing instructional programs among undergraduate institutions
Conduit Documentation Guideline Standards for packaging computer-based curriculum materials
Statewide Pools May Not Yield Expected Results Pooling of computer services in statewide networks
Adding up calculators Electronic calculator market in 1974
Hard Core CAI
PLATO IV System Progress Report on Field Testing Large-scale field test of PLATO computer-assisted instruction system in 1974
TICCIT System Progress Report on Field Testing MITRE Corporation field-test of Time-shared Interactive Computer-Controlled Information Television system of Computer Aided Instruction in 1974
PLANIT: The Portable CAI System Computer Aided Instruction
Careers
A Computer Career for You? Computers in the workplace in 1974, Demand for Trained Personnel, Planning Your Education and Training, Vocational Training and Going On to College, Finding the Right Job, Meeting People in the Field
Career Education. Will It Last? preparing students for work
1974 Data Processing Salary Survey managers, systems programmers, systems analysts, keypunch operators, computer operators, applications programmers salaries
Key to Your Future? career education
Profile of an Industry from the 1974 booklet More About Computers published by IBM
Applications
Computers and the Weather predicting the weather, meteorology, climate by computer, weather balloon, meteorite recovery
Computer Simulation of the Atmosphere predicting climatic trends
Weather Forecasting Applications Naval Environmental Display Station Speeds Weather Forecasts, 1971 ultraviolet image from Orbiting Solar Observatory-7, Hunting Tornadoes, weather forecasting by satellite and computer, Minis monitor weather and nuclear power sites
Relativity for computers: All arithmetic Mathematic reformulation of Newton's and Einstein's work
Mr. Spock's 7th Sense long-distance sensors on Star Trek's Starship Enterprise
Satellites and computers help manage Earth's Resources ERTS-1 spacecraft
Programming and Languages
Structured Programming structure should reflect function, program display
On Computer Languages comparison of ALGOL, APL, Assembly Languages, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, LOGO, PILOT, PL1, SMALLTALK and other languages
Toward a Human Computer Language Why are computer languages different from human languages?
Learning about Smalltalk Xerox, Alan Kay, PARC
Eclectic Programming Languages Future of programming languages
"Very Good. Please Continue." A New Approach to Testing development of computer-generated examinations
Computer Impact on Society
The Computer Threat to Society Fraud, influence on elections, physical harm
Digital Calculators - Then And Now from the booklet 1974 More About Computers published by IBM, abacus, Pascal's Arithmetic Machine, Leibniz Calculating Machine, Punched Card Looms, Babbage's Calculating Engines, punched card counting, Harvard Mark I, ENIAC, The Stored Program Concept
The Computer: Threat to Society? Interview with California Senator John V. Tunney
Putting Teeth Into Privacy Legislation 1974 Right to Privacy Act
Industry Leaders Testify at Government Privacy Hearings computer privacy in 1974
Record-keeping in the Space Age data grids, privacy
How One Computer Manufacturer Looks at the Data Privacy/Security Issue Control Data Corporation, Federal Privacy Act of 1974
Survey of Public Attitudes Toward Computers in Society Computer impact on the quality of life, Computer threat to society, Role of Computers, Understanding of Computers
NBS Privacy Conference National Bureau of Standards, MITRE Corporation
How Much Privacy Should You Have? Line between personal freedom and public security, Federal Privacy Act of 1974, Guidelines for Federal Agencies
Memoirs of an Ex-Social Security Number Giver keeping social security numbers private
Crime, Cops, Computers PATRIC (Pattern Recognition and Information Correlations) computer system, criminal records, detectives
Prosecutor Management Information System PROMIS computer system for public prosecution agencies
A Computerized Criminal Justice System privacy rights
Embezzler's Guide to the Computer computerized embezzlement
Credit Card Crooks credit card crime
Waiting for the Great Computer Rip-Off computer embezzlement
Computer Abuse: The Need for a Rational Perspective
Doomsday, Says MIT Computer, May Be Just 100 Years Away collapse of society by year 2100. From New York Times, population growth, diminishing resources, pollution
Why Supermarkets Are Going Bananas Over Computers from United Airlines Mainliner Magazine, 1974, 1974 introduction of UPC codes, bar code scanners, new receipts, scanning groceries
Community Memory: A Public Information Network Community Memory Project, early public-access computer terminals
The Fascinating Computer
Turning On With Computer Art Report on the Third International Computer Art Festival, EXPLOR computer language
New Communications Media computer conferencing, patterns of influence in new media
Computer Cartoons themes in cartoons about computers, humanized computer, computerized human, computerization penetrating daily life, computer as beneficial tool, tool evolves into threatening master, dependent computer, computer people and insider jokes
Building a Computer of Your Own microcomputer kits, MCS-4, MCS-8, Mark-8, MITS Altair 8800
Daddy and His Computer Story by Heather Lynne McWilliams, from May 1973 Datamation
The Life and Times of Multivac Science fiction by Isaac Asimov
Time and Again, and Overtime Science fiction by Doodles Weaver
Poems by Peter Payack Motorcycle Evolution, Only Minutes, Interstellar Chess, The Average Person, Cornucopia, Only Me
Cat face ASCII Art
We're Losing Our War Against Computers Cartoon reprinted from Mad Magazine 171, 1974
Genesis Release 2.5 humor. Reprinted from Datamation, November 1973
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers cartoon
Fractionated People humor. Reprinted from Passages, 1974
Test For System Analysts humor
Span-O-Vision cartoon
Confess: A Humanistic Prescriptive Computer Program to Decrease Person to Person Interaction Time During Confession humor, reprinted from The Journal of Irreproducible Results, 1973
The Guinness Book of Computer Records computer trivia, world records
Trots and Bonnie cartoon, robot dog
Draw the Bug From the Computer and Win Prizes contest
Nicholas Copernicus biography, father of modern astronomy
Evelyn Roth art, canopy, and clothing from used videotape
Nolan Bushnell- Father of PONG biography, Atari, Atarian philosophy
PILOT 73 Information Exchange Coordinating service for PILOT users
Playing PONG to Win tips for winning Atari PONG
CoEvolution Quarterly publication from Stewart Brand, supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog
Introducing Computer Recreations Corp. computer games delivered through home terminal
Your Own Computer? functions of a computer in the home
Lies, Lies, Lies Inaccuracies in Creative Computing magazine
Creative Computing Compendium First videodisc system, 1976 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) conference, Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium, New Program Detects Typos, American Microsystems S9209 $10 computer, A Career in Data Processing 120 Years Ago, HP Educational Programs Clearinghouse, Freedom of Information Act amended, Space Shuttle Simulator on Univac 1100/46, World Problems and Human Potential, 1974-1975 ACM Student Paper Winners, Computers Become Art at Lincoln Center, New Role for FBI's National Crime Information Center, Correlation and Causation, ACM Policy on Universal Identifiers, FBI Computer Plans Grow Despite Critics, You Can't Escape Universal Product Codes (UPC), Research on Computer Errors in Air Force Computers, Nutrition analysis on UNIVAC 1108, Talking Computer ordering pizzas, Computers Monitor Biorhythms, Online Legal Data with SEARCH - System for Electronics Analysis and Retrieval of Criminal Histories, Computer Security Puzzle, Standards for writing graphical programs in BASIC, American Indian Students Use Computers with Oregon Total Information System, Madonna and Child ASCII Art
Flying Buffalo Play-by-mail game company
Cows and Computers computer answers questions about cattle nutrients and diet for ranchers
Compleat Computer Catalogue Source information about resources for learning about and using computers, Books and Booklets, Learning Aids, Magazines, Journals, Newsletters, Magazines, Journals, Newsletters, Media, Games and Simulations
A National Computers in Education Conference?
Public Access Questionnaire public access computer projects
Still a Few Bugs in the System articles that blame problems or catastrophes on computers
Students Stuff the Contest Box California Institute of Technology students use computer printouts to win McDonalds sweepstakes
Computer-Generated Super-8 Movies 1973 movies
NSF Awards 1974 National Science Foundation awards for technological innovation
Hewlett-Packard's Computer Curriculum Project for secondary through graduate level education
Can You Solve The Energy Crisis? Computer simulation of energy crisis at EXPO '74
Good Things From Oregon Computer-oriented publications from Oregon
Sexism in Computers Female USSR computer operator causes errors
Computers Help Watch For Corn Blight Corn Watch Blight Experiment
Input/Output Letters to the Editor
Problems for Creative Computing
Tac Tix and the Complications for Fallibility game of Tac Tix, Piet Hein
Puzzles and Problems for Fun calculus puzzle, geometry puzzle
Palindromes: For Those Who Like to End at the Beginning Palindromes in words and numbers, palindrome numbers, squares, BASIC program to test if a number is a palindrome, turning a number into a palindrome by successive reversals
Computing Factorials Accurately
Puzzles and Problems for Fun math puzzles
AEDI, MUTAB, NEDA, and SOGAL puzzle to determine probability of winning war
Puzzles and Problems for Fun math puzzles
Reading, Writing, and Computing learning activity, computer literacy, puzzle
Probability and Compounding math puzzles
Doubling Up folding a piece of paper in half 7 times, growth of doubling sequence
Puzzles and Problems for Computers and Humans math puzzles
Pythagorean Triples math puzzles
Pocket Calculator Tricks spelling words with calculators
Puzzle: People and Cabins and Thinkers' Corner Logic puzzles
Activities to Begin With
Turtle Geometry Without Hardware Papert's turtle with children as turtles
The 10 Cent Computer and Other Games Using games to teach math to kids
Beginning with BASIC programming activities for junior-high school students, extending a simple program to solve complex problems
Odd or Even? and Cryptic Puzzle Computer puzzles
Alphabet Statistics Statistical letter analysis
Programming Problems to Start With Problems to solve in any programming language
Sports Special Math exercises in sports
So You Think You Know BASIC? Questions about BASIC programming language
You Don't Need a Computer for These computer-oriented activities
Learning, Innovation, and Animals Drawing of ostrich and baby, ANIMAL computer program for learning, identifying animals by comparison, Sample run of ANIMAL computer program, facts about animals, exercises
Computers in the English Curriculum examples of exploration and play mode for computer assisted learning, poetry software
Surveys, The Census, and Privacy examples of surveys, survey exercises, computer programs to accept and analyze survey responses, excerpt of Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens report from HEW Secretary's Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems
Interview classroom activity, public attitude towards computers, computers and society questionnaire
Life Auction classroom exercise, ranking importance of lifestyle options
Computers in Road Building civil engineers use COGO computer language to build roads, Caterpillar
What Do You Value? exercises to determine what values are important to you, computer analysis of responses to value strategy game
Fairy Tales Can Come True...It Depends on You exercise, effects of an advanced technological society, reprinted from Technology and Social Change, 1973
You Are A Businessman classroom activity, solving social problems with technological advances, how corporations affect the availability of socially desirable goods and services, social development
Technology... Doomsday For Individualism? Effects of computers and technology on individualism and privacy, reprinted from Zephrus: DeSchool Primer
More Advanced Activities
Escape how an object travels if it is launched vertically upwards from the earth's surface, Chelsea Science Simulation Project, BASIC program code
The Automobile and Air Pollution statistics on relationship between cars and air pollution, reprinted from Air Pollution Student Lab booklet from Hewlett-Packard, exercises, estimating number of cars, carbon monoxide concentrations, garage problem, intersecting freeways, tunnel problem, new model, equilibrium concentration, turning the wind off, closing freeways, time-dependent model, political questions
Computer-Based Experiments in Cognitive Psychology Dartmouth College's project COMPUTe, experiments, pattern recognition,, predictions, hierarchical levels, parallel processing, using the program, figure 1: Pandemonium, Sample Run of Pandemonium, BASIC program code for Neisser's Visual Search and Pandemonium
People-picture of megalopolis graph of northeastern United States population densities
The JOURNALISM Programs: Help for the Weary Writer computer programs that teach writing, Journalism Computer Assisted Instruction, readability formulas, stylistic analysis, evaluation of JOURNALISM, sample runs
Shorthand Instruction via Computer writing instructional materials for shorthand classes, verify and statistically analyze new-matter shorthand dictation, sample page of dictionary, computer output of edited text image showing rejected words, word frequency count
A Universal Word Game in BASIC BASIC game for vocabulary building, BASIC program code for spiel1 German word game
Dynamic Modeling Using Fortran IV construction of formal models of systems whose behavior is followed by computer simulation, System Dynamics, Jay W. Forrester, required subroutines, example, program listing, sample run
Call for Games how to submit a game for publication
Hunt The Wumpus BASIC computer game, genesis of Wumpus, history, birth of Wumpus, sample run, maps, BASIC program listing
Depth Charge BASIC computer game, submarines, Battleship, BASIC program listing, sample run
Not One BASIC computer game, dice, BASIC program listing, sample run
Civil War BASIC computer game, war simulation, sample run, BASIC program listing
Guess BASIC computer game, comparison, searching a list, BASIC program listing, sample run
Reverse BASIC computer game, arrange numbers, algorithmic vs. heuristic approaches to problem solving, BASIC program listing, sample run
Schmoo BASIC computer game, splat the Schmoo, slinging mud, two-dimensional grid, BASIC program listing, sample run
Binary BASIC computer game, binary to decimal conversion, decimal to binary conversion, BASIC program listing, sample run
Seawar BASIC computer game, sink enemy ships, Battleship, sample run, BASIC program listing
Lunar BASIC computer game, lunar landing simulation, LEM, ROCKET, APOLLO, BASIC program listing, sample run,
LOVE tribute to Robert Indiana, Love artwork, BASIC program listing
Geowar BASIC computer game, BASIC program listing, sample run, review of Geowar
Splat Open a parachute at the last moment, BASIC computer game, BASIC program listing, sample run
ICBM BASIC computer game, BASIC program listing, sample run
Rabbit Chase using X-Y coordinate plane, BASIC computer game, BASIC program listing, sample run
Magic Square addition, BASIC computer game, BASIC program listing, sample run
MADLIB Madlibs party game, BASIC computer game, sample run, BASIC program listing
ASCII art of Mr. Spock Leonard Nimoy
Super Star Trek BASIC computer game, history, quadrant nomenclature, rules and notes, BASIC program listing, sample run, captain's notes
Book and Game Reviews
Education and Ecstasy review, by George Leonard, 1968
Man and the Computer review, by John G. Kemeny, 1972
Survival Printout review, by and Total Effect
Equations: The Game of Creative Mathematics, Instructional Math Play, On-Words reviews, by Layman E. Allen, Joan K. Ross, Frederick L. Goodman, Doris J. Humphrey
On-Sets game review, by Layman E. Allen, Peter Kugel, and Martin F. Owens
Space Hop: A Game of the Planets review, by Helmut Wimmer
BASIC in a Flash review, by Earl Orf and Royce Helmbrecht
II Cybernetic Frontiers review, by Stewart Brand, 1974
The Use and Misuse of Computers in Education review, by Allan B. Ellis, 1974
Computers in the Classroom review, by Joseph B. Margolin and Marion R. Misch, 1970
Learning for Tomorrow: The Role of the Future in Education review, by Alvin Toffler
Electric Media review, by Les Brown and Sema Marks
Computers and Young Children review, by Nuffield Foundation, 1972
Computer Poems review, by Richard W. Bailey
Background Math for a Computer World review, by Ruth Ashley, 1973
Computers review, by Jane Jonas Srivastava, 1972
The Electronic Brain: How it Works review, by Joseph J. Cook, 1969
Six Books on Computer Literacy The Story of Computers (Donald Spencer), Computers (William R. Corliss), The First Book of Information Science (Joseph Becker), Computers in Action (Donald Spencer), Understanding Computers (Thomas H, Crowley), The Way Things Work Book of the Computer
Computers: Tools for Today review, by Claude J. DeRossi, 1972
Computers and Society review, by Stanley Rothman and Charles Mosmann
Getting Started in Classroom Computing review, by David H. Ahl, 1974
Computers and You review, by Kurt R. Stehling, 1972
Computer-Assisted Instruction Project Final Report review, by Alex Dunn and Jean Wastler, 1972
Snobol: An Introduction To Programming review, by Peter R. Newstead, 1975
Business Data Processing I review, by Robert Albrecht, 1974
How To Survive in Your Native Land review, by James Herndon, 1971
The Digital Villain: Notes on the Numerology, Parapsychology, and Metaphysics of the Computer review, by Robert Baer, 1972
Databanks In A Free Society: Computers, Record-Keeping and Privacy review, by Westin and Baker, 1972
The Terminal Man review, by Michael Crichton, 1972
The Electronic Criminals review, by Robert Farr, 1975
Freedom's Edge: The Computer Threat To Society review, by Milton R. Wessel, 1974
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance review, by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
The Eco-Spasm Report review, by Alvin Toffler
Computers in Society: The Wheres, Whys, and Hows of Computer Use review, by Donald D. Spencer
Principles of Systems review, by Jay W. Forrester
World Dynamics review, by Jay W. Forrester, 1971
Reviews of 34 Books on BASIC Choosing a BASIC book, about the authors, the writing, list of titles, authors, and publishers, comparing books, no standardization, the programs, flowcharts, indexes, and tutorials, exercises and problems, size and look, personal preferences, BASIC Sixth Edition by Stephen V. F. Waite and Diane G. Mather, 1971, BASIC: An Introduction to Computer Programming Using the BASIC Language by William F. Sharpe, 1967, BASIC Programming by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, 1971, Programming in BASIC, The Time-Sharing Language by Mario V. Farina, 1968, Introduction to An Algorithmic Language (BASIC) by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1968, Introduction to Computing Through the BASIC Language by Richard L. Nolan, 1974, A Guide to BASIC Programming: A Time-Sharing Language, by Donald D. Spencer, 1969, Problem-Solving With the Computer, by Edwin R. Sage, 1969, Introduction to Programming: A BASIC Approach, by Van Court Hare Jr., 1970, BASIC for Beginners, by Wilson Y. Gateley and Gary G. Bitter, 1970, Discovering BASIC: A Problem Solving Approach, by Robert E. Smith, 1970, Basic BASIC: An Introduction to Computer Programming in BASIC Language, by James S. Coan, 1970, Computer Science: A Primer, by Alexandra I. Forsythe, Thomas A. Keenan, Elliott I. Organick, and Warren Stenberg, 1969, Elementary BASIC With Applications, by Mario V. Farina, 1972, Time Sharing's BASIC Language, by General Electric Training and Education Programs, 1970, BASIC Programming, by Paul W. Murrill and Cecil W. Smith, 1971, BASIC: An Introduction to Computer Programming Using the BASIC Language, by William F. Sharpe and Nancy L. Jacob, 1971, Computer Programming in BASIC, by Joseph P. Pavlovich and Thomas E. Tahan, 1971, An Introduction to the BASIC Language, by John E. Skelton, 1971, Basic BASIC Programming: Self-Instructional Manual and Text, by Anthony P. Peluso, Charles R. Bauer, and Dalward J. Debruzzi, 1972, BASIC Programming for Business, by Joseph C. Sass, 1971
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