tutorials + idea

[Alejandro Tejada]

Hi all Revolutions Users!

Happy New year to everyone!

I've follow with interest these messages about
Tutorials and Ideas. 
This remember me, something that I begin to suspect 
when I take a 2 week course about the use of the 
Technology of the Information in the Classroom:
Most Teachers and Instructors for PC don't know about 
the use of the Macintosh in the Educational area. 
Neither, they have use HyperCard or SuperCard.Never
In fact, the authors that mention them, like Bernard
J. Poole take for granted that most of his readers
are using a PC.
I believe that still is many years ahead, before
most books authors about computer in the education 
and teachers "discover" the real advantages of this
card development enviroment.
All the years of experience gained in the mac platform
are mostly unknow in the PC world. It's a real shame,
an obstacle for the advancement of the education.
I pointed to Kevin that with the addition of unicode
to the MetaCard engine, there is an excellent
oportunity
for translating the development and script language to
other languages as an open source project, with the
help of universities and academic personal.
About the path for learning Revolution, I must point
to all the books and stacks for HyperCard are the
better
resorce for now, until books specific to Revolution
and MetaCard were written.
Every developer in this list could talk about their
personal path for learning the enviroment and the
script language.
For me, I begin programming in HyperCard to make a
Text application to assist in translation from
english to spanish. 
I suggest that your students first become experts
in working with everything that had to deal with text,
in first place. Databases and Parsers are practical 
applications that they must learn to create. 
In PERL courses, you'll find plenty of examples.
After they master all text manipulations available,
they can continue with Math operations and two
popular representation of them: Vector graphics and
bitmap images.
Finally, the comunications protocols and receiving/
sending data in diverse formats using diverse methods.
With the capabilities of writing binary data, you
could
even produce a compiler like Tom Pittman build with
HyperCard, years ago. The possibilities are endless.
Our time not.


Good luck and hard work.

Alejandro Tejada



on Wed, 01 Jan 2003 10:33:01 -0500
Al Rudnitsky wrote:

>I teach a course entitled Information Technology and
>Learning.  We cover a great deal of ground in this 
>course (www.smith.edu/edc333) including learning 
>several applications.  The most important application

>students learn in this course is an authoring system.
 
>The system has to be adaptable for teachers of upper 
>elementary children and essentially have no ceiling. 
<snip>
>So, suggestions for how to begin learning Revolution 
>would be terrific as would tutorials created by 
>knowledgeable users.
>Any suggestions, opinions, etc. would be most
>appreciated.


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