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Prof. Ron Mak, San Jose State

Contents:
     - Old Fashioned Data Processing - e-mail Dec 2013 - updated April 2020
     - Sat Nov 14, 2009 - 2nd Sat & Class

Old Fashioned Data Processing - e-mail Dec 2013 - updated April 2020
Yes, there are still some old computer science professors who insist on teaching the antique technologies.

Here's an updated link to my lecture slides: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/archive/CS146/lectures/CS146-150714.pptx
I discuss bucket sorting and card sorters starting on slide 23. I show them how to do a 4-tape merge sort starting on slide 29.

I have been known to teach my students how to multiply using a slide rule.

-- Ron, doddering old prof

Ronald Mak
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/

Department of Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Department of Applied Data Science
San José State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA USA 95192 		"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
     -- Charles Babbage, 1791-1871
     World's first computer scientist

"The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers."
     -- Richard Hamming, 1915-1998, mathematician

Ed Thelen here, if Ron thinks he is "doddering", just imagine him at my age, 39*2.27

Saturday November 14, 2009 - 2nd Saturday & Class

from Ron Mak, via Stan Paddock
Hi, Bill [Worthington] and Stan [Paddock].

Thanks for teaching my students about the 1401 and unit record equipment yesterday! It was much appreciated. I overhead one student say that the keypunches reminded him of those "ancient typewriters".

I think they'll now appreciate their laptops and iPods more ...

-- Prof. Ron
Department of Computer Science
San Jose State University
mak@cs.sjsu.edu
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~mak

Ron is also:
- Our software lead
- Author of ROPE, our 1401 editor/assembler/simulator GUI
- and author of computer software books #1, #2, #3, #4