Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!rochester!ritcv!mxp9040 From: mxp9040@ritcv.UUCP (Michael Pfalzer) Newsgroups: net.cse Subject: Re: top-down editors and tracers for Pascal Message-ID: <9481@ritcv.UUCP> Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 01:21:31 EST Article-I.D.: ritcv.9481 Posted: Sat Mar 22 01:21:31 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Mar-86 03:05:25 EST References: <9859@ucla-cs.ARPA> <457@ucsfcca.UUCP> Reply-To: mxp9040@ritcv.UUCP Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Lines: 17 In article <9859@ucla-cs.ARPA> rms@ucla-cs.UUCP writes: >[This article is really from John Pedersen] > >1) An intelligent editor, that not only helps students with syntax but > also promotes top-down design/implementation and discourages bad > >2) A program tracing facility that shows the lines of source code as > they are being executed (on one part of the screen) while variable > >QUESTION: Do such tools already exist (or something close), specifically I believe at Cornell University, beginning students use an editor that does all of the above. Mike Pfalzer, ritcv!mxp9040