Austrian Schoren High School succeeds in LiveCode Certification
For the first time in our school (perhaps even for the first time in Austria) programming language LiveCode was implemented in our programming curriculum (age group 15/16 years). With the help of the LiveCode company a programming certificate for educational purposes was created by LiveCode for our school fostering the idea of motivating students for coding.
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Arguably, coding is the new literacy. How early should children start to learn coding? Can they learn it while they learn language itself? KidCode is a new app initiative which aims to teach just that. It uses LiveCode to simultaneously teach coding and English, and will shortly be launched in kindergartens in China. It is targeted at children from as young as 2 or 3 years old. The app is a collaboration between HHOTT and So-Easy International.
read moreThis month, leading up the National Code Challenge in Malaysia, was extremely hectic, but extremely rewarding and I am overjoyed with the way the event went.
I am the lead trainer and content developer for the Coding@Schools program, a government funded initiative aimed at introducing primary school children in Malaysia into the world of computing and programming, to encourage them to become contributors to and creators of the Internet rather than mere consumers.
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How Eurotalk used LiveCode to develop a No.1 educational app in many iTunes stores. The Maths App has now gone on to become the cornerstone of the Onebillion charity initiative to bring education to marginalized children everywhere.
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The University of Vienna required a robust and fit for purpose management system to address the day to day running of this thriving learning environment. It has 9400 employees attending to 91,000 enrolled students taking 188 courses of which 56 are Bachelor Programmes, 117 Master Programmes, 4 Diploma Programmes and 11 PhD Programmes. They use a solution built on LiveCode to manage all this. We spoke to Hartmut Eich, from the software development team at the University about their choice of LiveCode.
“The project originated as a system for the creation of a database-based applications. One of the key features of the system is the way that the data and the code is stored in the database itself. The database stores all of its own meta-structure – a description of the table structure, together with the relationships between the tables, along with all the code for the user interface.”
The LiveCode written system includes a module to perform any task necessary for operating a large University. Notable modules include:
There are half a million lines of LiveCode in 43,000 procedures and functions in the system. These have been built as approximately 1300 fully independent modules, each of which is stored in an Oracle database.
Hartmut told us: “LiveCode was an ideal choice for this project for many reasons. At the heart of the system is an augmented version of SQL that ties SQL together with the LiveCode language model. This is essentially a domain-specific language, tailored to fully support the needs of this application.”
“We upgraded to the latest version of LiveCode to take advantage of the Unicode improvements that have been incorporated over the years. New legislation means that we have to be able to represent a student’s name within the system correctly in their native language.”
“Another key benefit is the ability to fully customize the development environment. Our system uses its own customized set of tools, including a Code Editor written for the project. The editor cross-references the code stored in the database, making it easy to navigate the huge code-base contained across all the modules and to make changes. The LiveCode development environment is written in itself and we wanted to integrate the latest version of the LiveCode Integrated Development Environment tools into our system.”
“ Vienna University have multi-user development license for LiveCode. Their in-house team keeps the system up to date and adapts it to the changing requirements of the University. The design of the system makes it easy for a team to work on the project. Each module is completely independent and stored in the Oracle database. This makes it straightforward to work on it in parallel.”
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‘Digital Tools for Rural Schools’ Campaign to Improve Education in Africa
Language learning specialists EuroTalk are experts in their field with 20 years of publishing experience and over 10 million customers. EuroTalk use LiveCode during the authoring process for many of their titles. They also deliver a number of commercial titles using LiveCode.
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Teaching Programming with LiveCode at Brigham Young University
“I have a number of students who never in their wildest dreams thought they would be able to do programming of any kind, but who then went on to take the second semester”
A good way to engage students. Cross-platform. Easy-to-use.
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LiveCode is the one programming system that enables content experts to focus attention on their areas of expertise, without the distractions of mastering the arcane syntax and byzantine rules of other languages.
New York Law School in Manhattan is one of the oldest independent law schools in the United States. Their mission is to provide diverse routes to achievement through innovation in scholarship, service, and professional training.
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