Furman Smith's AUM Home Page

Explore some links relating to Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science.

I have the same browser start up page at home as at school and the professional links link is on it .

Read about NELLAN IS THIRSTY.

As far as I know, the first computerized fantasy simulation for kids was NELLAN which was published in the first of two articles in Recreational Computing. I wrote a Web page about the two articles in response to Dennis Allison's invitation to join a virtual reunion of those having some association with the People's Computer Company decades ago. . I am delighted to report that there is an updated version of the game programmed by Geof Draper.

Scan my resume,

which was updated Oct-2006.

Play the graph game of Sim.

You can also play the equivalent games of Tri-Not and Toe-Tac-Sim. I wrote the program in a fine language called Logo -- the Microworlds dialect of Logo in fact. I've taught elementary school children how to program in Logo but I can do things in Logo that just are not feasible in Fortran or Pascal. Perhaps I could do them in Python if I knew Python.

Play a video game that was developed for the 2006 SK Day.

Greg Lovern developed a wonderful brief introduction to programming with MicroWorlds Logo. I've updated it and used it in a 2006 SK Day presentation.

Experience WebCT.

Either sign on as guest (with password guest -- all five characters are lower case) or make up your own username to sign up for Computer Science 1200 (Scientific Computing using Fortran).

Browse

some Web pages related to teaching with technology.

Refer to my AUM professional page, including my current schedule.

The usual Office Hours are posted here along with temporary changes, if any such there be.

E-mail me at

furman.smith@mail.aum.edu .