[Yr11 Information Technology] Interesting pen type interface

[Laurie Savage]

Ruby is free, simple and installable on Windows machines. It is
preinstalled with MacOSX and Linux. Here is a
lovely tutorial written by Daniel Carrerra. If the attachment
doesn't arrive or you can't open a tar.gz (Winzip understands) 
here is a link.

http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/

Laurie

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:39:45AM +1000, Lappin, Jason M mentioned:
> Hi List
> I have just started to panic!
>  I have just been handed a Year 11 ICT class for all of term 3 and have just finished going through the course outline and realised that we do not have any programming software on the school network. I am sure I would be able to purchase some but it would have to be cheap.
> Does anyone out there have a series of tutorials that can help me teach myself and the kids some programming.
> I know that this is at late notice but I have reading the year 12 list and the people on there have been extremely generous.
> Thanks in anticipation.
> Cheers
> Jason Lappin
> *NEW* Yera 11 ICT Teacher - Rutherglen High School
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: yr11it-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Roland Gesthuizen
> Sent: Fri 13/07/2007 3:32 PM
> To: Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] Interesting pen type interface
> 
> 
> Do you mean this one? ROTFL
>     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQL9V2dnKFY
> 
> Greg! Very good! I will add that to my growing collection to bring to school.
> 
> Regards Roland
> 
> 
> On 13/07/07, Greyruin <greyruin at gdurkin.com> wrote:
> 
> 	Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> 	> Here is a video of an interesting pen based interface. Nice eye candy
> 	> but I must admit to still wondering it will really improve my
> 	> productivity or make my computer desktop look as messy as my real
> 	> desktop.
> 	>
> 	OK - I confess that, at first, I thought this was a send-up, so I
> 	checked their website. I've read it thoroughly and I'm still none the
> 	wiser. If it IS for real, though, Ananda Agarawala and co appear to be
> 	post-doctoral graduates of the Microsoft Academy of Vapourware since not
> 	even their FAQ has been written yet. {Well, of course, you can't answer
> 	the frequently asked questions if nobody has had a chance to ask any
> 	questions at all, such as, for example, "Are you guys for real or what?"}
> 
> 	That said, though, I rather like the idea. Have you checked out the
> 	parody site? The link is on the "BumpTop" website.
> 
> 	Hmmmmmm
> 	Greg Durkin
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