Re: While of on the subject of ideas for programs.

[Malonowa <malonowa@wanadoo.fr>]

Hung(2) Chao(2)-Kuei(4) wrote:

> Greetings everybody,
>
> I am a newbie to this list and enjoy the atmosphere here.
> Anyway, I have a few pieces of info to share:
>
> 1. There is a huge list of different distributions on
>    http://kernelnotes.org/dist-index.html
>    Some of them even tout getting you on the internet with 1 floppy.
>    I am sure there must be some that more or less fits Mr. Bellville's
>    requirement.

;-)

> 2. In the now-MS-dominated market of Taiwan, I usually suggest
>    replacing the MS-Word .doc files with .html files, and that leads
>    to the natural conclusion of using the open source, cross-platform
>    web-publishing program ZOPE. There might be a reason for using
>    a real word-processing program for other people. But to me the
>    content, not the appearance of a document is of utmost importance,
>    and therefore a web-publishing program works well enough. (In
>    fact I use vi to create my html files.)I will definitely avoid
>    recommending a word-processor especially if an alternative
>    word-processor means getting trapped into another proprietary
>    file format.

I think this is true with older people who have longer concentration spans
but with younger ones you need to maintain their interest with some
graphics and things.

> 3. I have a few perl programs to do on-line testing (only fill-in-the-
>    blanks), announcement of grades (with privacy consideration) and
>    for grading (requiring some manual correction). It works best with
>    programming courses since one single source file can be used to
>    generate the running program, the html form, and the standard answer
>    for grading. I am the only person using it up to now, and therefore
>    using it still requires a lot of command line operation. Besides,
>    the program is ugly and not yet internationalized. I'll rewrite
>    it using perl/tk when I have time and would be glad to GPL it.
>
> Chao-Kuei Hung
> http://www.cyut.edu.tw/~ckhung (Sorry, no English yet)
>

Great. Stick around and publish what you're doing.

Roman.


> ps. If you wonder, I am teaching programming at a University. That's
>    why I am both a teacher and a programmer. But I haven't had time
>    to write real programs for a long while...

Do you know a lot about TK? I'm just starting with this - it looks like
that answer to a lot of my probs.

Have you for example, written course material on it that you may be able to
send me?

All the best,

Roman.