[Idle-dev] some interesting ideas from 'DrRacket' programming environment

[Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin]

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Tom M <letterrip at gmail.com> wrote:

> Also something fairly unique, but quite interesting for simplifying
> teaching tasks, is the abilty to paste images into a variable
> definition, and able to output images to the evaluation window. i
> thought this was rather clever, pasting an actual image inline into
> your program file rather than path manipulation is likely drastically
> easier for new users, and visual results are both more interesting and
> often easier to understand.
>

On the IDE side, Sikuli <http://www.sikuli.org/> pretty much nailed this.
[http://doc.sikuli.org/globals.html#importingsikuliscripts has some info on
how it's implemented.]
I don't know if anybody ever used it for teaching for its inline image
support but unrelated to its GUI automation purpose...

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Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin
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