DIY Calculator :: Information For Educators

Additional Material for Educators

Hi there. In the Additional Materials section lower down this page you will discover additional materials for use by educators. But first, please note that the CD-ROM accompanying our book How Computers Do Math (ISBN: 0471732788) contains a special Educators folder.

Inside this folder you will find Adobe® Acrobat® PDF files for all of the labs in the book (each lab includes a summary of the exercise, the estimated time to complete the exercise, and step-by-step instructions and illustrations). These files can be printed out, copied, and used as handouts for students.

Furthermore, all of the images used throughout the book (in the chapters, labs, and appendices) are included in this folder in the form of Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations. These images may be used as-is, or they can be employed as the basis to form additional presentations and handouts so long as appropriate credits are given to this tome.

If you create any DIY Calculator-related course materials that you would be willing to share with others (with full credit being given to yourself, of course), please contact us as described on the About/Contact Us page on this site.

Similarly, we would be very interested in talking to you about your students creating additional subroutines and programs to run on the DIY Calculator as discussed on the Subroutines page; and also any DIY Calculator-related applications such as assemblers, compilers, interpreters, profilers, and code coverage utilities (see also the More Tools page).

Last but not least, you may be interested in having your students create a physical version of the DIY Calculator in the form of an ASIC or FPGA (see also the More Cool Stuff page).

Additional Materials

The materials presented below are intended for use by educators. These images may be used as-is, or they can be employed as the basis to form additional presentations and handouts so long as appropriate credits are given to the authors (Clive "Max" Maxfield and Alvin Brown) and to this website.

    PUSHX, POPX, and CMPX Subroutines: Click the icon on the left to download a compressed (ZIP) file containing a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, which itself contains all of the images that were created for the PUSHX, POPX, and CMPX topic on the Subroutines page.

    Workbench 101: Click the icon on the left to download a compressed (ZIP) file containing a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, which itself contains all of the images that were created for the Workbench 101 laboratories provided on the Demos page.

    Rounding Algorithms 101: Click the icon on the left to download a compressed (ZIP) file containing a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, which itself contains all of the images that were created for the Rounding Algorithms 101 document on the More Cool Stuff page.

    BCD Instructions: Click the icon on the left to download a compressed (ZIP) file containing a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, which itself contains the images from the document on the Download page that introduces the DIY Calculator's new BCD instructions.

    More Tools: Click the icon on the left to download a compressed (ZIP) file containing a suite of Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. These presentations – one for each of the tools discussed on the More Tools page – contain the images from those topics.