Index for Revolution PDF Document & switch vs. if/then/else

[André.Bisseret]

Hi Judy,
Would it not be interesting too, to carry out such an experiment in 
order to compare two groups having to script multichoice situations 
presented in plain english (or any natural language):
- one group would have to translate it using " switch case" structure 
and the other using "if then else" structure.
Measures could be time and precison (errors) completed, may be, with 
subjective evaluations of difficulty, workload, understandability...

Best regards from Grenoble
André

Le Monday, 20 Feb 2006, à 19:27 Europe/Paris, Judy Perry a écrit :

> This reminds me of an ACM article I'm having the students read this 
> week
> (It's something like 'Text vs Hypertext: Which is easier to use to find
> information' or some such thing).
>
> It involved two groups with reference material on Sherlockiana -- one
> group had all the info in a Hypercard stack and the other had the same
> material in a book/encyclopedic reference format.
>
> The test subjects were given a list of questions and timed as they 
> found
> the answers.
>
> It would be interesting to repeat it with my students -- one group 
> using
> the built-in docs and the other using Dave's indexed PDF...
>
> (considering the idea...  anybody got any good questions?)
>
> Judy
>
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, David Burgun wrote:
>
>> It depends on if you are "using" the document or just proof reading
>> it. If you are using it, then it makes finding things really easy.
>> All you do it enter a word or phrase like "mouseStack" and it will
>> return a list of all the occurrences with a rating bar similar to
>> spotlight. Then you just double click the line you want to see and it
>> instantly pops up in the PDF file.
>>
>> I'm "using" the document and have found it makes finding things much
>> easier/quicker.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Dave
>