U iva maybe we should include Brainfuck
(http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/) instead of pascal. (24K
kollox)

The source that was being asked about seems to come from here:
http://cdbrowserkit.sourceforge.net/

I think we should try and compile a list of what to include with file sizes.

Hey we need a wiki for this work. How about the drupal wiki module? is
it any good?

Philip


2008/6/22 Jean Azzopardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sorry, I sent my previous post to the wrong thread.
>
> A-level students are no longer using Pascal. (At least, A level
> Computing Students), thus I don't think there is the need to bundle
> GnuPascal. Not to mention that it wouldn't have been compatible anyway.
> I tried both GnuPascal and FreePascal and ended up using Turbo Pascal
> under Dosbox to make programs using Graph Mode.
>
> On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 15:58 +0200, Philip Serracino Inglott wrote:
>> Seb, Since you seem to be the lead on this project and you are an Uni
>> IT student, I think I will trust your judgement.
>> I think we should also try to target  MCAST and A-Level students at
>> least by not excluding them. i.e. the disc should not be UoM specific
>> (after all it would be good PR if foreign students use it too) and if
>> we can squeeze in something like GnuPascal (does it still exist?) for
>> A-Level students, we should go for it.
>> Besides good text editors, putty, etc. are useful to all IT students.
>>
>> Philip
>>
>> 2008/6/22 Sebastian Cachia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > If we are going with TITS what about TITS-Disk? We might lose them with 
>> > ORB.
>> > In any case a catchy name is a must! Anybody curious how the female 
>> > students
>> > would react to the name TITS?
>> >
>> > I suppose we are relying on the fact that this project makes student's 
>> > lives
>> > easier. Some students will be interested from the start, but others will
>> > initially only show interest because the open software is immediately
>> > available, as opposed to the having to google and download whatever other
>> > software most lecturers will inevitably suggest.
>> >
>> > A few goodies should be thrown in. Putty should be included in any case as
>> > we have sometimes needed to SSH onto one of uni's machines. Some 
>> > engineering
>> > software could be thrown in too.
>> >
>> > Apart from some self explanatory html pages explaining the software on the
>> > disk itself, it would be a good idea to dedicate part of the /discover or
>> > whatever part of the website to explaining the programs included and link 
>> > to
>> > their homepages.
>> >
>> > A cd for MCAST would be a lot harder as from what I gather, they tend to be
>> > much more tied down to specific products.
>> >
>> > Anybody think targeting A Level students would be a good idea?
>> >
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