Teaching Linear Programming on a Microcomputer

Rolf A. Deininger
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Rolf A. Deininger: School of Public Health, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Interfaces, 1983, vol. 13, issue 4, 30-34

Abstract: In teaching linear programming in a classroom the instructor often makes numerical errors, which distract both students and instructor. Inexpensive and portable microcomputers allow real-time and error-free demonstrations of algorithms. One such system solves linear programming problems with up to 20 variables and nine constraints in an interactive conversation with a microcomputer. The continuous transformations of the linear programming tableaus can be viewed as the iterations proceed to find the optimal solution. The program is intended mainly as a teaching aid.

Keywords: microcomputers; programming: linear (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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