Re: [Tutor] Highlighting instructions: pedagogical preferences

2005-04-25 Thread Alan Gauld
> Question: should the highlighted instruction be the one that has just > been executed, or the one that is about to be executed (when the user > clicks on the step button, for example)? Its conventional to take the second option - it allows the student to examine the highlighted line before it op

Re: [Tutor] Highlighting instructions: pedagogical preferences

2005-04-25 Thread Kent Johnson
André Roberge wrote: I'm writing a program "interpreter" which has two windows: a program editing window and a program output window. The interpreter can either step through the program automatically, at a slow pace, or step through the program one instruction at a time, as the user "clicks" on

Re: [Tutor] Highlighting instructions: pedagogical preferences

2005-04-25 Thread Max Noel
On Apr 25, 2005, at 17:03, André Roberge wrote: I'm writing a program "interpreter" which has two windows: a program editing window and a program output window. The interpreter can either step through the program automatically, at a slow pace, or step through the program one instruction at a tim

[Tutor] Highlighting instructions: pedagogical preferences

2005-04-25 Thread André Roberge
I'm writing a program "interpreter" which has two windows: a program editing window and a program output window. The interpreter can either step through the program automatically, at a slow pace, or step through the program one instruction at a time, as the user "clicks" on a "step button". Th