Students learn in a number of ways and in a variety of settings. They learn through lectures, in informal study groups, or alone at their desks or in front of a computer terminal. Wherever the location, students learn most efficiently by solving problems, with frequent feedback from an instructor, following a worked-out problem as a model. Worked-out problems have a number of positive aspects. They can capture the essence of a key concept -often better than paragraphs of explanation. They provide methods for acquiring new knowledge and for evaluating its use. They provide a taste of real-life issues and demonstrate techniques for solving real problems. Most important, they encourage. | Ma Nek ancAoaatf Fuat atoo available at nppwaxorrVpwa Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB The Original Bookware Companion Series Vinay K. Ingle lohn G. Proakis A BC Note Students learn in a number of ways and in a variety of settings. They learn through lectures in informal study groups or alone at their desks or in front of a computer terminal. Wherever the location students learn most efficiently by solving problems with frequent feedback from an instructor following a worked-out problem as a model. Worked-out problems have a number of positive aspects. They can capture the essence of a key concept often better than paragraphs of explanation. They provide methods for acquiring new knowledge and for evaluating its use. They provide a taste of real-life issues and demonstrate techniques for solving real problems. Most important they encourage active participation in learning. We created the BookWare Companion Series because we saw an unfulfilled need for computer-based learning tools that address the computational aspects of problem solving across the curriculum. The BC series concept was also shaped by other forces a general agreement among instructors that students learn best when they Eire actively involved in their own learning and the realization that textbooks have not kept up with or matched student learning needs. Educators and publishers are just beginning to understand that the amount of material crammed into most textbooks cannot be absorbed let alone the knowledge to be mastered in four years of undergraduate study. Rather than attempting to teach students all the latest knowledge colleges and universities axe now striving to teach them to reason to understand the relationships and connections between new information and existing knowledge and to cultivate problem-solving skills intuition and critical thinking. The BookWare Companion Series was developed in response to this changing mission. Specifically the BookWare Companion Series was designed
