Abstract The article presents information on teaching business data processing with the aid of a computer. This article describes how the computer fits in to the course and what the students are expected to get out of the course. In the area of understandings, the instructor desires the student to acquire an understanding of how automatic computers go about and are able to do data processing work, what sort of work automatic computers can do, what requirements (including personnel requirements) must be met in order to use an automatic computer in data processing situations, what the usual procedure is for preparing applications for an automatic computer in a business context and what sort of difficulties are involved in using an automatic computer for data processing work. Although the instructor does not ignore technical and scientific applications data processing applications in the business and government environments are stressed in this course. The increasing growth of operations research applications and the use of "business" computers for technical and scientific data processing applications seems to make it inadvisable to draw a sharp distinction.
Ned Chapin (Tue,) studied this question.