David Brooks wrote:
marty wrote:
Is it true that most programmers say that hypercard isn't
programming? Do they say that about RR? I'm running into that
issue a little bit.
Some of my students (8th grade and up) think that RR is not a
"real" programming language. Why? It's too easy! They have the
notion -- shared by a good portion of the general public -- that
programming is incredibly difficult to do, hard to learn, and
mastered only by geeks. Thus, since making things (even
executables) using RR is so easy, it must not be programming. This
viewpoint is especially expressed by students who have dabbled in
other languages, like java.
Yeah, I see that a lot. Rev is in a very difficult position with
regard to its positioning: any programming language will be too hard
for most folks to find attractive, yet Transcript is too easy for
some to take it seriously.
I know better than to post this. Really, I do.
I left the last RunRev conference excited about the possibility of
teaching RunRev. The new plug-in possibilities make this just too
attractive to pass up. Since I don't normally teach this, it meant
adding to my load -- something tenured faculty just don't do unless
they are "on a mission."
I needed to describe the course, and I've chosen to use a term
introduced to me at Las Vegas by Paul Looney -- RevCode. So, I'm
teaching RevCode. Now, some of you might think this is Revolution,
and others transcript, and still others hypertalk-on-steroids. I'm
calling it RevCode.
In order for the "case" to be made, well, I'd just have to take more
from Paul's justification than a good academic should. In our world of
sound bytes where "script" is bad and "code" is good, why not RevCode?
Preach it brother! ;o) I agree with Paul as well.
Phil Davis
Best,
Dave B.
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Phil Davis
PDS Labs
Professional Software Development
http://pdslabs.net
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