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From: rhutchin@Bonnie.ICS.UCI.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: MATH Instruction Stacks
Message-ID: <9102061956.aa20244@Bonnie.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 91 03:56:30 GMT
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Has anybody or is anybody considering HyperCard-izing a math course.
I've been a HyperCard finatic for about 3 years, and have just started
to think that such a thing might be possible, useful, and perhaps
even $$profitable$$.

Currently, I'm taking an Upper Division Abstract Algebra course and
have found the format of a book rather limiting.  For instance, I
was doing a proof last night real late, and needed to look up the
definition of a division ring.  Two pages in the book were stuck
together and it took me awhile to figure out that the definition of
a division ring was between those pages.  By the time I unstuck the
pages, I'd lost the page with the proposition I was trying to prove!

Seems like HyperCard could take care of a lot of this, and I might
be willing to dedicate some time to making some of these stacks, IF
there is interest.

Oh well, please e-mail me with any of your thoughts

Richard B. Hutchings
Department of Information and Computer Science
UC Irvine