Educational uses for Rev (was Re: Plea to sell Dan's book widely)

[Devin Asay]

Hi folks,

I've been following the discussion about Rev as a tool for educational 
s/w development. One of the perhaps overlooked uses of Rev in the 
educational setting is as an easy-to-learn, non-threatening environment 
for teaching programming concepts to non-techies. We teach just such a 
course and made the decision back in the v. 1.0 days to make the change 
to Revolution. We've negotiated the minefields of buggy early releases, 
and today, starting our fourth year of teaching Rev, we're pretty happy 
with it. It's allowed us to better utilize our teaching and classroom 
resources.

At the same time Rev provided us a way to migrate our older HyperCard 
and Toolbook custom apps to a new, single-track code base. We are not 
primarily concerned with producing marketable educational software 
(although we will do so if a demand emerges), but mainly with producing 
and maintaining software for the use of our foreign langauge and 
humanities students here in house.

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University