Call for Articles - Crossroads Magazine
dae...@cs.tamu.edu
Hi, my name is Kim Moorman and I am the Publicity Manager for Crossroads,
the ACM student magazine. We are currently seeking submissions for a
future issue focused on windows programming. We were hoping that you might
pass this information along to anyone that might be interested in
contributing an article to this issue. If you have any
questions, please contact cross...@acm.org or any of the editorial
board members. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Kim Moorman
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Call For Articles
Crossroads, the Association for Computing Machinery Student Magazine
Windows Programming (Summer 2000)
DUE DATE: November 9, 1999
SUBMISSION ADDRESS: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/submit/
INFORMATION: cross...@acm.org
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/cfas/windows.html
SPECIAL NOTE: If you are interested in being a Student Guest Editor for
this issue, please contact us at cross...@acm.org or fill out the
online application for student guest editors, located at
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/guested.html.
The Crossroads editorial staff invites authors to submit articles dealing
with
topics drawn from several areas pertaining to Windows Programming.
The following partial list of topics is provided to give prospective
authors
ideas for articles and is by no means exhaustive; other relevant topics will
be considered.
History and Future of Windows Programming
Windows NT Continuous Computing Overview
Windows Scripting Host (WSH)
Registry Mastering, Management and Security
Advanced System Policy Editor (SPE)
Visual Basic, MFC, SDK, OWL, DLLs, OCXs, ActiveX, class
libraries, etc.
Programming Tools and Controls
Common errors? (Xwin, Win95/98, WinNT)
Comparisons of the different Windows systems and the challenges
programmers face
Visual Programming and RAD [Rapid Application Development]
e.g. Borland Delphi, C++ Builder, IBM Visual Age...
GUI design and implementation automation (related to RAD)
Platform-independent Windows Programming and related trade-offs
(performance, functionality and portability) e.g. Java AWT,
Qt (www.troll.no)...
Articles should include a basic description of the kinds of problems
being worked on, the state of the art of research, the state of the art
of commercial applications, open problems, or future research/commercial
development trends. Interviews with researchers; reviews of related
books,
software, videos, or conferences; and opinion columns on related issues
are also welcome. We especially encourage both undergraduate and
graduate
students to submit articles. However, articles written or coauthored by
professionals will also be considered.
Crossroads articles should be written for a broad audience. They should
be easily understandable by someone who has had only the most basic
computer science instruction, and yet still be interesting to the
advanced computer enthusiast. Articles longer than 6000 words will
generally not be considered for publication. Feature articles should be
between 1500 and 6000 words; reviews should be between 800 and 2000
words; and opinion columns should be between 800 and 3000 words.
Articles should be written in a magazine style rather than a research
paper style. In consideration of our diverse readership, authors should
try to use language that is inclusive of people regardless of their
gender, race, religion, nationality, or field of study. Additional
writing guidelines and submission information are available online at
the Crossroads web site
(http://www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/information/writing.html).
Crossroads is published both online and in print. We have a print
circulation of about 15,000. All back issues are available for free on
our website. Authors that have an article printed in Crossroads can receive
complementary copies of the issue they were published in.
All submissions should be formatted in HTML or plain text format and
submitted via http://www.acm.org/crossroads/submit/
Submissions are due November 9, 1999. They will be reviewed shortly
thereafter and authors of accepted submissions will be notified within
two to three weeks of the deadline.
Prospective authors are invited to send email to the editors of Crossroads
(cross...@acm.org) indicating their intention to submit an article. In
this way we can keep everyone informed of any changes in deadlines or formats
and to make sure we have a good variety of articles. General questions
should
also be sent to the Crossroads editors.
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