Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:05:20 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.1 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 23:49:16 GMT Content-length: 4090 Robert Probasco Faculty Page

Robert Probasco

Computer Science Department
University of Idaho
Moscow
Idaho

email to rcp@uidaho.edu

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Teaching

My philosophy of teaching can be gleaned by looking at my classroom policies, and by perusing the Table Of Contents for each course Workbook I have written.

  • Classroom policies & prodecures
  • CS 112 Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming
  • CS 113 Program Design and Algorithms
  • CS 120 Programming in C
  • CS 213 Data Structures
  • CS 307 History of Calculating and Computing
  • My 12-tape short-course of CS 112 using DOS Turbo Pascal 7.0, is available through Engineering Outreach.

    Office Hours

    Available almost any afternoon in JEB 320 (except for scheduled classes & meetings ).

    Research

    My research activities have included:
  • computer history
  • musical holographs of Mozart, Beethoven and others
  • pedagogy.
  • Music

    Before shifting into Computer Science in 1982, I taught in the UI School of Music for fourteen years: oboe, music theory and music history. I performed in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Rose Bowl, and many of the public schools in Idaho and the Pacific Northwest. Every July, I perform in the Royal Fireworks Concert in Spokane's Riverfront Park.

    If your smiler needs a tickle, try these musical instrument jokes.
    If you're ready for more, try these classical music disasters.

    Family

    My wife, Kathy , is the Associate Registrar/Catalog Editor for UI.
    Our son, Joe, attends Royal Garrison School in Pullman.
    Our Miniature Schnauzer, Terra, may whelp her first litter in 1996.

    Interests

    Computer museums, esp. Boston , London , and the Charles Babbage Institute in Minneapolis.
    Travel, and the growing availability of cyber cafes to keep in touch.
    Scuba diving . The Ames archives are extremely useful.
    ACBL duplicate bridge, and our local club.
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    Contact

    Mailing Address:
    Computer Science Department
    University of Idaho
    Moscow, Idaho 83844-1010

    Phone (Voice mail):
    208.885-7076
    Fax:
    208.885-9052
    Email:
    rcp@uidaho.edu

    Link to UI Bookstore
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