Array-Oriented Programming in Education R i c h a r d D. Neidinger Davidson College P. O. Box 1719 Davidson, NC 28036 fine idinqe r@apollo, davidson, edu In an array-oriented style using A P L notation, it could be: sum h * +/f a+h x tn E-mail: Today's campuses (college, university, and seco n d a r y school) are r eady to make widespread use of a r r a y - o r i e n t e d programming, in a way t h a t a decade ago was k n o wn only to APL p r o g r a m m e r s . Arrayo r i e n t e d p r o g r a m m i n g uses powerful built-in functions for a r r a y and matrix m a n i p u l a t i o n in an i n t e r a c t i v e workspace of user-defined f unc ti ons and variables. While the tools for such p r o g r a m m i n g are now widely available, the
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