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It is rare that a tool comes along that is especially useful both for teaching the subject of development and for the creation of general instruction materials. If you have been looking for a tool that does both, you have arrived at our little Revolution in Education.
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Teaching Development with Revolution
There is a major disconnect between the industry of technology and development instruction. As technology companies race to the end of every business quarter, they pepper the industry with buzz words, paradigms, methods and messages in order to secure their position in the market. As an instructor, there's always someone telling you your students need to learn Java, C#, AJAX, .net, Ruby on Rails, or whatever is on next week's blast of press releases. But the fact of education is simple: if students can't grasp and demonstrate independent practice of the basics, they simply are not ready to continue. What is the easiest way to take them along from instruction to independent practice? It's our Revolution in education.
A language to teach, a language to learn. Revolution is not only a tool, but a language: an easy to learn, English-like language. It is so easy, an explanation of a concept is almost the same as how you write it in Revolution. That means your students move very, very quickly from concept to application to independent practice.
Universal lessons in design. There isn't a concept in modern programming that you cannot express in Revolution. Revolution's toolbox has all the visual components and easy, point-and-click interface building that you will find in any other event driven, professional development tool.
Results to Demonstration. One feature that sets Revolution above the rest in education: no waiting for compilation. That means your students can test their software in the same class session in which they code, interactively. And you don't have to worry about leaving code to compile into the next class session, when new students arrive.
Technology if You Need it. You may or may not have time to teach lessons in SOAP, multi-platform development, XML or Unicode, or building client-server solutions. Fortunately, if you can cover these kinds of topics in our coursework, Revolution wont let you down.
Fastest Way to Polished, Reusable Instruction Materials
We hear it from educators around the world: prep times are down and class sizes are growing. And many pre-made solutions and systems are either too expensive or do not do what you need them to do. This applies not only to actual education materials used with students (interactive tests, self directed learning, and more) but also academic software and utilities, such as grading software. You know what you want. Revolution makes it easy to create the software you need.
Cross Platform Instruction Materials. Combine great media support (audio, graphics, video) with the ability to store and retrieve data, then with the ability to deploy on all four major operating systems: Windows, MacOS X, Linux and Unix. It doesnt matter what kind of computer you have at home or sitting on your desk, or what is in the lab.
Educational Utilities and Simulations. If you have had it with your gradebook software, why not build your own? What about simulations that you can give to your students for independent practice? Revolution's ease of use means you really do not have to become extremely knowledgable before making something you can use.
A Strong User Community. Revolution is used by educators around the world and you will quickly discover that many like to share ideas, curriculum materials and projects. Download a demo of Revolution and join the Revolution community. You will quickly see that the academic spirit is alive on the Revolution community.
If you are looking for a class room solution or just a tool to make useful instruction materials, you owe it to yourself to see how you'll save time and actually enjoy making solutions.