Undergraduate Student Task Group Approach to Complex Problem Solving Employing Computer Programming / LeRoy D. Brooks.

A project formulated a computer simulation game for use as an instructional device to improve financial decision making. The author constructed a hypothetical firm, specifying its environment, variables, and a maximization problem. Students, assisted by a professor and computer consultants and havin...

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Main Author: Brooks, LeRoy D.
Corporate Author: University of Delaware. School of Business and Economics
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1973.
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Physical Description:3 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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