sigma@usl.UUCP (Spyridon Triantafyllopoulos) (01/29/85)
> I just received this *very* interesting MIT course outline that I just *had* > to share with you...[apologies if this is a repeat] > Jan Gray (jsgray@watmath.UUCP) University of Waterloo (519) 885-1211 x3870 > Styles of User Interaction > Lippman and Kay > Materials: > 25 512K touch-screen Macintoshs running MacSmalltalk. > Any additional LISA's and Macs that might be available. > All will be networked to a file server, laser printer, and > gateway to AMT LAN. Add a couple hundrend ex (gardening majors or buck-seekers).... Back in 1979 all I remember was a General Automation SPC/16 and a Teletypewriter (THE Teletype). > le course in intended to be exploratory with the students doing most of the > intent will be to get studets to become designers so they compare different > interaction styles and then make up their own. Gee... And now I remember... They used to "PROGRAM" these machines Oh God, what a BLASPHEMY!!!. > The first part of the semester will be spent trying different interaction > now in vogue. MacSmall will have a variety of models to which use interfaces > can be fit, including: browser, word processor, spread-sheet, draw and paint, > animation, and music. The last part, and most student projects, wll be > concerned with two new interaction principles: Agents, and Multi-channel > Interaction. And then there was the Simplex method in Fortran IV on the final of a > Topics to be discussed > Easy To Learn vs. Hard To Use Manual Vs. Automatic Transmission... > Doing with Images makes Symbols And smarter programmers, i guess (:-)) > User tailored/written software They DO write software, don't they??? > Agents > Multi-channel interaction Her: "Say something in Computerese!!" A while ago, I had a look in the MIT bulletin according to which the introductory (or close enough) course was in LISP, Algol-60, and other obscene languages. Then the topics were recursion, and other hard subjects (:) (Egghead me He dont understants recirsion). Weeeeel. I guess that is why MIT charges $6,000.00 for tuition compared to $1400 over here.. It takes more money to maintain the garden!!! As usual, there should be a conclusion: Smalltalk makes Smallthink. Real Programmers program in S/370 Assembly. In the deaf's house, there is a doorbell with a light (old Greek Proverb). -- Spiros Spiros Triantafyllopoulos <> USENET {ut-sally, akgua}!usl!sigma Computer Science Dept, USL <> CSNet TriantafyllopoulosS%usl@csnet-relay.ARPA "This file contains no opinions whatsoever"