Past Contents pages of CHEER

Issue Number 22, May 1994

Contents

Articles

• Two Applications of Graph and Spreadsheet Tools in WinEcon
  LI Lin Cheah and David Demery
• Illustrating Microeconomic Theory by Using Spreadsheets
  Holger Paetow
• Spreadsheets, Implicit Functions and Four Quadrant Diagrams: A Case Study from Transport Economics
  Guy Judge and Barry Andrew

Reviews

• Question Mark for Macintosh Version 1.0
  Terry King
• The Latest Student Edition of Lotus 1-2-3
  Pauline Crichton

News

• News from the CTI Centre for Economics
• Crashes and Breakdowns on the way to the Super Highway: a report on the computing sessions at the Exeter RES conference
  Guy Judge
• News roundup

Issue Number 21, February 1994

Contents

Articles

• Can Multimedia Toolbook (Asymetrix) Make National Income Accounting Seem Interesting?
  Chris Elven and Jan Chipchase
  Newly available in HTML!
• Open-Economy Microeconomics on a PC using SHAZAM
  Joachim Wagner
  
• Using DERIVE in Teaching and Research
  (RTF format)
  Charles Evans and Barry Taylor

Reviews

• Seminar on a Disk: Windows/Fundamentals 3.1
  Matt Ayres
  (RTF format)

News

• News from the CTI Centre for Economics
• CHEER goes to CHEERS! A report on the CAL sessions at the AEA meetings in Boston
  Guy Judge
• News from NISS and CHEST
  Annette Lafford
• News roundup

Issue Number 20, November 1993

Contents

Articles

• Attractors, Difference Equations and Spreadsheets
  James Montier
• The Two Sector General Equilibrium Model in a Spreadsheet
  Winified Reiss
• Estimating Productivity with Lotus 1-2-3
  Ron Ayres, George Hallam & Jennifer Simister
• Interactive Learning with WinEcon
  Alexander MacDonald & Jean Soper
• Don't you just love being in control? Interactive features of the WinEcon courseware.
  Matt Ayres
• Who's got what? A note on current and future computing facilities
  in economics departments in UK higher education.
  Tim Wakeley & Phil Hobbs
• Exploring the network
  Nicky Ferguson

Reviews

• Neural Networks - setting up applications: a review of NeuroWindows
  Howard Jones

Issue Number 19, May 1993

Contents

Articles

• Learning about the Production Possibility Frontier with Asymetrix Toolbook
  Alexander MacDonald & Jean Soper
• Steps in Learning about Consumer Surplus using Asymetrix Toolbook
  P. Burke & Jean Soper
• Chaos and the Internal Rate of Return
  Mike Osborne
• Deterministic Dynamic Programming and Stepwise Advertising Models on the PC
  Tony Proctor
• Identifying Maximum and Minimum Turning Points in Non-Differentiable Functions
  David Wigham

News

• News from the CTI Centre for Economics
  Phil Hobbs
• Royal Economic Society Conference at York, April 1993: Reports and Notes on the Computing Sessions
  Guy Judge, Chris Birchenall and others

Issue Number 18, February 1993

Contents

Articles

• The Innovation of Excel in Teaching Managerial Economics Decision Models to Students.
  Allan W.T. Burns
• Moving and rotating symbol and diagrams in an Excel Chart demonstrated by parameter dependent arrows
  Winifred Reiss
• Vax Interactive Tutorials in Quantitative Economics
  Harry Burley
• Computational Economics: Discussing the Issues.
  Chris Birchenhall

Reviews

• The Student Edition of MINITAB Release 8
  Alan Mabbett

News

• News from the CTI Centre for Economics
  Phil Hobbs
• Caleco goes to California ! A Report of the CAI sessions at the AEA meetings in Anaheim, January 1993.
  Guy Judge
• NISS Gateway news
• Arizona Token Exchange
• Diary

Issue Number 17, November 1992

Contents

Articles

• Using a Computer for Live Presentations: Prejudices Revisited
  Clive Holtham
• The Incredible Power of the @@ Function in Spreadsheet Macro Programs
  David Wigham
• A Utility procedure for enabling descriptions to be saved for Quattro Pro data files
  Philip W. Hire

Short Notes

• Analaysing Economic Data with Excel 4 and Windows 3
  Jean Soper
• Self Teach Word for Windows
  R.Ormiston and others
• Spreadsheets for intermediate level economics
  Judith Tomkins
• CTI Centre for Economics Annual Report 1992

Reviews

• PcGive Version 7
  Guy Judge
• ML3: Software for Three-Level Analysis
  Kelvyn Jones

News

• News from the CTI Centre for Computing in Economics
  Phil Hobbs
• Teaching and Learning Technology Programme Economics Consortium
• Other News

Issue Number 16, May 1992

Contents

Articles

• The Smithtown Market Module: A Discovery World Program for Introductory Economics.
  Arnold Katz
• Simulating a dynamic system on networked microprocessors: a Stock Exchange
  Tony Proctor
• Goal Seek for Lotus 1-2-3 Compatible Spreadsheets
  Wilhelm Lorenz
• Generating Functions with Freeform Entry in Lotus 1-2-3 worksheets
  Phil Hire

Reviews

• Recently published material for use with Lotus 1-2-3
  Guy Judge

News

• News from the CTI Centre for Computing in Economics
  Phil Hobbs
• Cti-Econ : a New Electronic Discussion Group for Economists
  Phil Hobbs
• Teaching and Learning Technology Programme
  Phil Hobbs and Guy Judge
• Conference Reports
  Guy Judge
• Microsoft Windows Software - New Releases
  David Gunn

Issue Number 15, February 1992

Contents

Articles

• Predicting Time Series with Neural Networks
  Howard James
• Should we teach 4GLs in our Computing Courses?
  S. Mireskandari and M. Roberts
• Brumcar and the Economics Environment
  J.Overend and K. Vaidya
• Further automatic updating of spreadsheet graph titles
  David Wigham
• CAL amongst the Cajuns: A Report on the Computing Sessions at the AEA Conference held in New Orleans.
  Guy Judge

Reviews

• Student Edition Software: Lotus 1-2-3 and What-if-Solver
  Guy Judge

News

• News from the CTI Centre for Computing in Economics
  Phil Hobbs
• News from NISS and CHEST
  Annette Lafford
• Economic Forum: a new electronic journal
  Mohammed Akacem
• IT Training Discussion Lists
  Brian Kelly
• Software News
• Hardware News
• Conferences Seminars and Workshops
• Letter to the Editor

Issue Number 14, November 1991

Contents

Articles

• Axes, Horizontal and Vertical Lines, and Multiple Series in Spreadsheet XY Graph.
  Barry Murphy
• Automatic Updating of Parameter Values in a Spreadsheet Graph Title
  Guy Judge
• Drawing Histograms using Lotus
  Martin Snell
• Computers in the Study of Economics: Overcoming Technofear.
  Neil Cooper
• Wordperfect Macro Mania
  Paul Walton

Reviews and Software Development

• Good Graphs
  Barry Murphy
• Developing Good Graphs
  Ted Porter and Teresa Riley
• Question Mark
  Dave Fysh
• Password
  Ken Heather
• Predict !
  Michael Wood

Short Reviews

• Four pages of short reviews
  Barry Murphy

News

• News from the CALECO Group
  Guy Judge
• News from the CTI Centre for Computing in Economics
  Phil Hobbs
• News from NISS
  Annette Lafford
• Other news

Issue Number 13, May 1991

Contents

Articles

• Electronic Information and Discussion Groups
  Phil Hobbs
  
• Going "Live" with JANET
  JAlan Mabbett
  
• Automatic recording of multiple transactions
  David Wigham
  
• Aspreadsheet model of renewable resource exploitation
  David Whitmarsh

Reviews

• SECOS and EURECO
  Guy Judge
  

News

• News from the CTI Centre for Computing in Economics
  Phil Hobbs
  
• News from NISS and CHEST
  Annette Lafford
  
• Other news
  

Issue Number 12, February 1991

Contents

Articles

• Data for use in Teaching: An Overview of Avaliable Sources
  Phil Hobbs
  
• A CAL Application of the Student Edition of MathCAD (Version 2.0)
  Brian Garrod
  
• Spreadsheet graphs with controlled scaling
  Guy Judge
• Automatic session logging under Lotus 123
  David Wigham

Reviews

• GCE 'A' Level Mathematics: Top Class Curriculum
  Dave Fysh and Neil Botten

News

• News from the CTI Centre for Economics
  Phil Hobbs

• Software News
  
• Software Reviews Listing

Letter to the Editor
Diary

Issue Number 11, November 1990

Contents

Articles

• Numerical Analysis Using Spreadsheets
  Peter Taylor
  
  
• Chaos on a Spreadsheet
  Guy Judge
  
  
• A Lotus 1-2-3 Decision Support Program
  John Sedgwick and Norman Stang
  
  
• A Role for Neural Networks in Decision Support Systems
  R A Proctor
  
  
• Managing Personal Bibliographic Databases
  Terry Hanson

Reviews

• WordPerfect 5.1
  Jeff Grainger, Barry Murphy and Shabbar Jaffry
  
  
• Mathematical Word-Processing: Vu-Writer II
  Barry Murphy
  
  
• Mathematical Word-Processing: T³, version 2.3
  Barry Murphy
  
  
• Graphecon II
  Richard Welford

News

• CTI News
  Phil Hobbs
  
  
• News from the CALECO Group
  Guy Judge
  
  
• News from NISS
  Annette Langford
  
  

Letter to the Editor

Diary

Issue Number 10, May 1990

Contents

• Editorial
  Guy Judge
  
  
• CTICCE News
  Phil Hobbs
  
  
• RES Conference News
  Guy Judge
  
  
• The Electronic Desktop: A New Standard
  Chris Birchenhall
  
  
• Derive: Software Review
  David Sampson
  
  
• Mathematical Word-Processing: ChiWriter
  Barry Murphy
  
  
• Quattro Pro: Software Review
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Running before you can walk? Teaching accounting by computer
  Barry Andrew
  
  
• Spreadsheet Tips 5
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Reading and Writing ASCII Files: A Review of dBase and SPSS/PC+
  Shabbar Jaffrey
  
  
• 5 minute back up with Laplink
  James Hicks
  
  
• Norton Commander version 2
  Barry Murphy

Issue Number 09, January 1990

Contents

• Editorial
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Progress Report of the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Computing in Economics
  Jane Doherty
  
  
• NISS and CHEST
  Rob Armstrong
  
  
• The Student Edition of MathCAD
  David sampson
  
  
• SideKick Plus
  Shabbar Jaffry
  
  
• Searching and Extracting Data from the Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin Data
  Clive Massey
  
  
• HyperPAD: push-button computing?
  Guy Judge
  
  
• SmartWare II
  Terry Hanson and Ian Bonar
  
  
• Spreadsheet Tips 4
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Locking the door before the horse has bolted - preserving system security
  Phil Hobbs
  
  
• SPSS/PC+ Base Package
  Shabbar Jaffry
  
  
• Inflation in "Chancellor-Two"
  Alistair Dawson
  
  
• Driven to dis(k)traction
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Book Review: Understanding and Using ShareWare Application Software
  Barry Murphy
  
  

Issue Number 08, November 1989

Contents

• Editorial
  Guy Judge
  
  
• CTI Centre for Computing in Economics
  Peter Dolton
  
  
• Computer Applications in the Social Sciences Conference Report
  Richard Welford
  
  
• SPSS Data Entry
  Shabbar Jaffry
  
  
• PROPI - Towards Top Down Authoring
  Dave Fysh
  
  
• Social Sciences Databases
  Terry Hanson
  
  
• Lotus 1-2-3 news
  Guy Judge
  
  
• BALER - a spreadsheet compiler
  Guy Judge
  
  
• New books for Lotus 1-2-3 users
  Guy Judge and Chris Ioannidis
  
  
• Spreadsheet Tips 3
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Miscellaneous Book Reviews
  Guy Judge, Louise Jacob and Richard Welford
  
  
• LinguaWrite - a software tool for leter writing in foreign languages
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Hypertext news - LinkWay
  Guy Judge
  
  
• News from Format PC
  Dave Fysh
  
  
• The National Collegiate Software Clearinghouse Catalogue
  (Announcement)

Issue Number 07, May 1989

Contents

• Editorial
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Dedicated to Forecasting: A review of speicalist forecasting software packages
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Sidekick - A Useful Utility
  Shabbar Jaffry
  
  
• dBase IV - A Review
  Richard Welford
  
  
• What'sBest - A Linear Programming add-In for Lotus 1-2-3
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Spreadsheet Tips
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Spreadsheet Books
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Over-abbreviating the acronyms : a book review
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Computer Applications in the Social Sciences: A Preliminary Conference Programme
  Richard Welford
  
  
• A Crystal Clear Look at Expert Systems - Book Review
  Mike Arnold
  
  
• Debating CAL: A book review
  Dave Fysh
  
  
• "Keynes" and "Marx": Viewbook Reviews
  Andrew Burchardt
  
  
• Sod's Law III
  
  
• On-Line Bibliographic Databases
  Richard Welford
  
  
• Office Automation: a book review
  Guy Judge
  
  
• News
  
  
• PITS 2
  Andy Thorpe
  
  

Issue Number 06, February 1989

Contents

• Editorial
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Lotus 1-2-3 Add-ons and Add-ins
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Spreadsheet Tips: Key parameter cells
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Software for the Application of Mathematics: A Review of Eureka, MathCAD and MuMath
  David Sampson
  
  
• The Commodore PC10/20: A Review
  Dave Fysh
  
  
• Sod's Law Plus
  "Murphy"
  
  
• CHEST and NISS
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Airfares: Software Review
  Dave Fysh
  
  
• Using Economics: news of a new book
  Richard Stead and Mik Wisniewski
  
  
• Electronic Study Guides
  Michael J. McCrostie
  
  
• Book review: Managerial Economics: Analysis and Strategy
  Jeff Grainger
  
  
• The Bored Students (cartoon)
  Philip Talbot
  
  
• Econometrics Software News
  Guy Judge
  
  
• Object Oriented Programming: A New Idiomatic Framework
  Dave Gunn