Introducing REXX into the engineering curriculum

Author

Yaghi, Husam M. ; Cross, James E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Southern Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

1-4 Apr 1990

Firstpage

825

Abstract

The restructured extended executor language (REXX), developed by IBM, is a language developed with programmers in mind. It is an interpreted language rather than a compiled language, so it is relatively fast in execution. REXX is available on both mainframes and personal computers. REXX is being introduced at the undergraduate level in the Electrical Engineering Department at Southern University on an experimental basis. Program results are presented. It is shown that REXX is easy to learn. Menu driven programs and customized application programs are developed efficiently. Because external programs can be called by REXX, programs written by several programmers in different languages can be utilized to solve a given program

Keywords

education; electrical engineering; high level languages; Electrical Engineering Department; REXX; Southern University; customized application programs; engineering curriculum; interpreted language; menu driven programs; restructured extended executor language; Application software; Arithmetic; Couplings; Debugging; Hardware; High level languages; Joining processes; Microcomputers; Programming profession; System software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '90. Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1990.117933

Filename

117933