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The incredibly simple operating system
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2017)
Andrew Mertz
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L A T E X tips for the academic
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2016)
Andrew Mertz, William Slough and Nancy Van Cleave
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A simple introduction to web services using Flickr: nifty assignment
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2015)
Andrew Mertz
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Visualizing some benefits of parallel computing with Julia sets: nifty ...
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2015)
Andrew Mertz and Nancy Van Cleave
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Bubble fountain with wandering black hole
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2013)
Andrew Mertz and Nancy Van Cleave
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Strategically recruiting diverse students into your undergraduate computing major
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2013)
Andrew Mertz and Nancy Van Cleave
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A Gentle Introduction to PythonTeX
TUGboat: The Communications of the TeX Users Group (2013)
Andrew Mertz and William A. Slough
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Boid swarms: nifty assignment
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2011)
Andrew Mertz and Nancy Van Cleave
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Nifty assignment: concurrent multi-user battleship
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2010)
Andrew Mertz and Nancy Van Cleave
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The ACM Java libraries
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2009)
Andrew Mertz, William Slough and Nancy Van Cleave
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A TikZ tutorial: Generating graphics in the spirit of TEX
TUGboat (2009)
Andrew Mertz and William Slough
TikZ is a system which can be used to specify graphics of very high quality. For example, accurate place- ment ...
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The Two Covering Radius of the Two Error Correcting BCH ...
Advances in Mathematics of Communications (2009)
Andrew Klapper and Andrew Mertz
The m-covering radii of codes are natural generalizations of the covering radii of codes. In this paper we analyze the ...
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The ACM Java libraries: post-conference workshop
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2008)
Andrew Mertz, William Slough and Nancy Van Cleave
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Using the ACM Java libraries in CS 1
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges (2008)
Andrew Mertz, William Slough and Nancy Van Cleave
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Graphics with PGF and TikZ
Proceedings of the Practical TEX 2006 Conference (2007)
Andrew Mertz and William Slough
Beautiful and expressive documents often require beautiful and expressive graphics. PGF and its front-end TikZ walk a fine line between ...
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Graphics with TikZ
The PracTEX Journal (2007)
Andrew Mertz and William Slough
Beautiful and expressive documents often require beautiful and expressive graphics. PGF and its front-end TikZ walk a thin line between ...
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Programming with PerlTEX
TUGboat (2007)
Andrew Mertz and William Slough
PerlTEX couples two well-known worlds—the Perl programming language and the LATEX typesetting system. The resulting system provides users with a ...
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The Two Covering Radius of the Two Error Correcting BCH ...
International Symposium on Information Theory (2006)
Andrew Klapper and Andrew Mertz
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ON THE PROPERTIES AND COMPLEXITY OF MULTICOVERING RADII
University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations (2005)
Andrew Eugene Mertz
People rely on the ability to transmit information over channels of communication that aresubject to noise and interference. This makes ...
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Beamer by Example
The PracTEX Journal (2005)
Andrew Mertz and William Slough
There are a variety of LaTeX classes which can be used to produce "overhead slides" for presentations. One of these, ...
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On the complexity of multicovering radii
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2004)
Andrew Mertz
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The multicovering radii of linear codes with 1-covering radius one
International Symposium on Information Theory (2003)
A. Mertz
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The multicovering radii of the even weight codes
International Symposium on Information Theory (2001)
Andrew Mertz
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