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From: gerardcote:sympatico:ca at: 29-Aug-2002 14:07
Hi Rebolers,
Not much answers to the former invitation, regarding a collective work to create an Extensible
REBOL Development Framework ;-( -
Summer must be a thing of the past or is it a sign of time ???
So how about a follow-on to the "naked objects" (http://nakedobjects.org) concept introduced
here by Andrew a few day ago. To get a
quick and dirty sense of all this - download the draft-book.pdf (Only 104 KB). Seems
to me it's a Nice approach - return to the
source - but with a new twist this time . Read-on to know more about it !!!
All or part of this and/or other paradigms (I introduce some others below...) could/should
be used as a basis ( or simply let them
be our inspiring MUSES !!! if we can't find them any other utility ;-))) for helping
our community to set a DEV FRAMEWORK standard
and may be develop together our own Extensible REBOL Dev Framework (could be dubbed the
ERF - not really an Elf but very close to
it, isn't it? ;-)))
May be someone could even suggest a bad solution - a first draft in other words - just
to be enhanced by the other members of this
ML. I would do it but I am surely not qualified enough for this kind of work but I can
help recrute and support for the job while it
is done. Who else want to be a part time coordinator/and/or collaborator for this task
and help start this project - nobody has to
start or finish it alone but someone must be in charge for the first draft on which we'll
work after ??
Just for helping everybody to gear-up with this proposition, here are some more related
ideas ...
If you want to get some quick look at these other interesting concepts that have been
applied elsewhere to help developers to
deliver some nice and productive work, and the kind of tools that their producers gave
to the whole World by letting them fall into
the hands of "Content producers" after the Frameworks were up and running here are some
refs :
(Note that most of these products originate from some EDUCATIONAL need! and for the most
part - the final "components" that are
produced by the programmers are to be used by end-users and they must just PLUG-IN together
like puzzle parts - this is precisely
the metaphor used by the E-slate team- virtual puzzle pieces are worked with during the
process of assembling software components
together!)
Name of the product or technology (Web link)
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E-slate (http://e-slate.cti.gr/Overview.htm)
Don't miss the sections : Microworlds, Components and Developers
Educational Object economy (alias eoe)
http://www.eoe.org/foundation/projects.htm
Look for the ESCOT project description
GOE (http://goe.eoe.org/FMPro?-db=null.fp5&-format=goe/GOE_home.htm&-view)
Get some look at a toolkit named GOE
Educational Software components of Tomorrow (alias ESCOT)
http://www.escot.org/resources/components/overview.html
The same one I refered above : like a kind of toolbox we can hope to be able to develop
easier using REBOL and its future
Dev Framework ;-)
SIMCALC (http://tango.mth.umassd.edu/) or http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/NewWebsite/simcalcframe.html
The Technology section at http://www.simcalc.umassd.edu/NewWebsite/software.html
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A list of other tools of interest to EDUCATION aware ppl
is referenced below for your convenience.
It come from the RESOURCES section of the E-SLATE web site :
Seems like I already saw some of them from my own searching ...
Some are of great value ! Believe me...
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AgentSheets (http://www.agentsheets.com/)
Java Sketchpad (http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dynamic/java_gsp/index.html)
Turtle Tracks (http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~dazuma/turtle/index.html )
Comspec (http://www.oslo.sintef.no/comspec/ )
COLIDE (http://collide.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/ )
Inteligent Pad (http://www.pads.or.jp/english/index.html )
Exploratory project (http://www.pads.or.jp/english/index.html )
Hope it will shake-up some of us - me being the first on the list - whatever TO BE or
NOT TO BE is done with this DEV Framework
project I am submitting for adoption ;-)
Regards,
Gerard
