Charles Burchard

Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering

Office Location:

Burke 163

Phone:

(814) 898 6249

Email:

clb8@psu.edu

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Biography

Mr. Burchard is Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Software Engineering at Penn State Behrend. He received his B. A in Mathematics from Allegheny College in 1970, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and shared the Doan Prize in Mathematics. He received the M.A in Mathematics 1973 and the M. S. in Computer Science 1983 from the Pennsylvania State University, and was a graduate teaching assistant in those departments while pursuing his degrees. From 1973 to 1981, he taught secondary mathematics in the Iroquois and Crawford Central school systems. He has been on the Computer Science faculty at Penn state since 1983, at University Park from 1983 to 1985, and here at Behrend since 1985.

Mr. Burchard is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and a Sun Certified Web Developer and is a member of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education. For several years, he has served as the coach of the Behrend ACM-ICPC Programming Competition team which competes annually at the ACM-ICPC East Central NA Regional Contest. He incorporates into his teaching the types of problems posed by the ACM-ICPC at its many worldwide regional contests.

Teaching

Courses for Spring 2012

Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science

Netcentric Computing

Design and Analysis of Algorithms

Publications

Articles Published in Refereed Journals

Burchard, C.L. Sorting and Searching: Lab Exercises Without and Within the Object-Oriented Paradigm. ASEE Comprehensive Educational Journal. 12 pp. (1993).

Burchard, C.L. and R.C. Bollinger. Lucas's Theorem and Some Related Results for Extended Pascal Triangles. American Math Monthly. 97(3):198-204 (1990).

Books

Hennefeld, J., L. Baker, and C. Burchard. Using C++: An Introduction to Programming. 2nd Edition, Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning. 670 pp. [ISBN: 0-534-374840-0] (2003).

Hennefeld, J. and C.L. Burchard. Instructor’s Solutions Manual to accompany Using C++: An Introduction to Programming. PWS Publishing. 240 pp. [ISBN: 0-534-95593-2] (1998).

Hennefeld, J. and C.L. Burchard. Using C++: An Introduction to Programming. PWS Publishing. 700 pp. [ISBN: 0-534-95591-6] (1998).

Parts of Books

Burchard, C.L. Techniques for Timing Code. Chapter Six in Turbo Pascal Innovations. Rockland Publishing Company. pp. 261-277. [ISBN: 0-939621-01-0] (1989).

Articles Published in Non-Refereed Journals

Burchard, C.L. Logging a Pascal Program's Textual I/O. Journal of the Turbo User Group. (44):8-18 (1991).

Burchard, C.L. How Turbo Pascal Uses the System Stack. Journal of the Turbo User Group. (20):33-41 (1987).

Burchard, C.L. Turbo Pascal and External Routines. Journal of the Turbo User Group. (16):17-27 (1987).

Service

Active Participation in Professional and Learned Societies

Association for Computer Machinery

Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education

C++ User Group

Turbo User Group

Programmer Resource Organization

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