Dr. Robert Franks
Office: 232 Vermeer Science Center
Phone: (641) 628-5308
my email address
Central College in Pella Logo Iowa
I am a Professor of Computer Science and a member of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Central College. This is my 21st year at Central (1988). My non-teaching responsibilities include chairing the Faculty Policy Committee. My professional interests lie in studying the cognitive processes involved in learning how to program and other aspects of human computer interaction, computer security, operating systems, multimedia and web applications. My dissertation was an experimental research project that involved students using a computer to create a simulated learning environment to better understand indirect accessing. My master's work was in a computational complexity implications of public key cryptography.
I'm on the board of Class Act Productions "Theatre For Children, By Children" in Altoona, Iowa CAP logo

My course schedule for 2008-2009

  • Fall Semester
    • Intro to Web Programming (COSC 106 A)
    • Intro to Computer Science (COSC 110)
    • Operating Systems (COSC 375)
    • Senior Seminar (COSC 485)
  • Spring Semester
    • Intro to Web Programming (COSC 106 A)
    • Data Structures (COSC 130)
    • Programming: Cobol (COSC 255)
    • Database Systems (COSC 360)

Perspectives

               

An environmentalist hertitage!

Here are my great grandparents Covered Wagon with a great uncle standing in front of their "Green" vehicle, taken in 1916 on their homestead in eastern New Mexico which does not look all that green. The family dog looks like it has been out in the sun too long or just finished pulling the wagon!

A fantasy visit to the Eniac with my parents.  
Some flowers in the yard            crazy franks

  Last Modified: 8 October, 2008