Here is a message I posted last summer asking for an educational category. I'm reposting in response to the recent request for such posts.
I'm new to PAUSE posting. When reading the script upload example, I saw the category of fun/educational. I have two questions about that. 1. Do these categories exist? 2. Does the slash mean two seperate categories? Here's what I would like to submit: A script which simulates assembly language for teachers who want to teach a little assembly language programming without having to use a full blown assembler. Mine is in Perl so it even crosses platforms. Since I see no educational category on the actual CPAN index, I'm assuming there is no such category. I would like to suggest that we create one. The script in question implements a simple 20 statement assembler which has some of the flavor of assembly without requiring an intense semester's work to write complete programs. I'm teaching occasionally now and find that colleges don't require assembly any more. That's not a big loss to the resume, but no knowledge of addressing modes and hand rolled arrays seems a pity to me. With the small assembler I can give a two week unit on assembly. This explains arrays and computing with binary operations. The idea is to build intuition and understanding. Let me know what you think. Phil Crow __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
