Gregory
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To: "Gregory D. Abowd" <abowd@cc.gatech.edu>
From: schlimme@eecs.wsu.edu (Jeffrey C. Schlimmer)
Subject: Re: Interest in Newton prorgramming
Gregory, it was refreshing to get your note about your efforts at
Georgia Tech. I visited once there and have a number of friends among the
faculty including Kurt Eiselt and Janet Kolodner.
Our effort here is focused on teaching computer science students
software engineering by immersing them in the software production cycle. We
start with freshmen, put them into teams, and keep them together for four
years. Initially they study para-software topics like marketing and Q/A and
do projects for regional software companies. In their second two years they
join product teams and participate more actively in powerPen, the company
side of the course we call the Team-Oriented Software Practicum. Newton has
been our central technology focus, and it's been a good way to facilitate
many issues.
Now with respect to powerNotes, the Notepad, and time stamping.
powerNotes installs stationery into the Notepad. This stationery has
methods that are called when a new note is made. Our code calls Time() at
this point as well as many other initialization steps. If you need detailed
information about when a note is created, then it could easily be added to
a custom stationery's definition. If you need detailed information about
when a note is edited, this too could be added to a stationery's
definition.
We did some time stamping within a Newton book last fall as part of an
introductory computer science course. Each student in the course had their
own Newton on which the read a 1,200 page Newton text, took exams, did
their homework, and turned in assignments via Beam. We instrumented the
book so we could gather information about what they read and when. For that
study, we recorded the time in seconds whenever they turned the page, or
turned Newton on/off.
--Jeff
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