Re: SEUL: a new operating system interaction

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:04:11 +0200, Lorenzo De Tomasi <deto@working.it> wrote:
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> send me al the material as written lessons + images that explain what you think
> are good things to teach to beginners...
> If you have good programmers we can realize the interface with Linux...
> otherside with Director...
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> Michael A Hamblin wrote:
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>> On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Robert Hopcroft wrote:
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>> > I'm not sure exactly what you have in mind, so I thought I would throw
>> > something out and get your reaction to it. I also sent this to seul-edu to
>> > get their reaction as well. On a windows machine, I saw a background ( I
>> > believe that's what they call it) of a periodic table of the chemical
>> > elements. My first thought was wouldn't it be neat to be able to click on
>> > an element and have displayed information about the element. By adding the
>> > digits, one could, for example, click on H, 2, O and get the properties of
>> > water. It doesn't take that much imagination to turn it into a Chemistry
>> > course. Would producing an interface such as this be of interest to you.
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>> If you could simulate reactions that would be really neat for cash-strapped
>> schools or even beginning some chemistry at lower grade levels.  Have a
>> small database of chemicals+properties like you are saying, then have a
>> simple method of oxidizing things, burning chemicals, and what not,
>> including the ever popular 'explosion' :) It's not the same as handling
>> chemicals, but maybe that's a good thing... I wouldn't imagine it would
>> be that complex if you do it in a simple manner.
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>> --
>> Michael Hamblin            http://www.utdallas.edu/~michaelh/
>> michaelh@utdallas.edu      http://www.ductape.net/
>> UTD Linux User Group       Engineering and Computer Science Support x2997
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