Re: [kidsUI] Alfredo's idea

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Alfredo Kengi Kojima wrote:

> As for vtcl, you can get it at:
> http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/
>
I looked at Alfredo's mockup just now, but I don't have time this
evening to write more about it.  I'll throw out a few thoughts
tomorrow.  

Mildly off-topic:  vtcl is a very nice beginning on an authoring tool
for Tcl/Tk.  One thing Linux will need to succeed in scholastic
environments is something along the lines of Apple's HyperCard that
allows non-programmers to develop their own small applications.  At the
moment we have MetaCard, which is commercial (although nicely priced)
<http://www.metacard.com>.  Since vtcl's interface is written in Tcl,
we might eventually want to apply what we do here to redoing the
interface for vtcl so that it can be used by students and teachers to
develop their own apps.  But first let's work on this.
 
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