OK Vague, here is an experimental psychologist with a fair amount of experience writing programs to support his work. I would imagine there is a good open source tool chain for this, but I'm not familiar with the landscape. What do you recommend?
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Coding Question Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:11:12 +0000 From: Boynton, David <[email protected]> To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Hi Tony, I am working on a program and I was hoping you might be able to give me some advice. The program is written in Java, and it is designed to present stimuli to participants, and prompt them for responses (e.g., confidence ratings, reaction times, etc.). It collects trial data as a string or vector of strings. What I would like it to do eventually is have students run a module of the program in class, and then have the program send students’ data to a server where the class’s data are compiled and presented back as an html page, e.g., displaying averages, tables, graphs, and the like. Similar programs are available for a price, e.g., Norton books has a program called ZAPs, but some of the modules are lame, and the customer service is poor. What is the best way to do this? I have too much invested in Java at this point to use, e.g., Flash. So, I am stuck with that. My sense is that I should either convert the application to an applet and embed it in a webpage, or else use Webstart, and then have the applet or application pass the data as a string parameter to a JSP. Do you think something like that would work? Any advice would be much appreciated. Do you have a recommendation for a Java web host? I am playing around with Tomcat at the moment (installed on my own machine). --David
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