Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!TAURUS.BITNET!shani From: shani@TAURUS.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: ComputerWorld article on HyperCard... Summary: My experiance is different Message-ID: <980@taurus.BITNET> Date: 2 Mar 89 08:21:26 GMT References: <5966@bsu-cs.UUCP> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Organization: Tel-Aviv Univesity Math and CS school, Israel Lines: 18 In article <5966@bsu-cs.UUCP>, mithomas@bsu-cs.BITNET writes: > they complained that HyperCard was not powerful enough to do serious computer >-based instruction work; it is suited best to simple guided tours. This is absolutly not true. HyperCard is the best tool I know for writing tutorials of any kind. (Actually that the main thing I am using it for). Just one example: I had to build a simulator for a simple microprocessor (some of you may know it - it is called FACET). I wouldn't even dare to think of using anything else to do the task, except HyperCard... It took me about 10 hours of work (Including design and scripting and some re-doing of work as I once mistakenly deleted my accumulator :-) ). Now, the only problem is speed. However, tutorials and simulators, need not be too fast, you know, and besides, I heard that now there is a compiler for HT, so I guess were soon out of the speed problem too... O.S.