Date: April 1, 2004

Presenter: DDavid W. Brooks, Ph.D.

Affiliation: University of Nebraska at Lincoln

The guest speaker for this meeting was David W. Brooks, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry Education, University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He discussed a very exciting area of software development that has wide applications in education and industry. David presented an overview of RunTime Revolution - www.runtime.com - an very powerful and elegantly simple - object oriented scripting program. The program develops faster, with less code, accomplishes more tasks and with less conflicts than most coding techniques available.

David is using RunTime for the back-end to web sites, although there are many different applications. The software can run off of a variety of Operating Systems including Windows, Mac and UNIX. In addition, it can run from any - to any OS, which makes it a highly desirable. The history of the software includes Transcript, SQL, MediTalk, HyperTalk, and SmallTalk (please forgive spellings). RunTime has common roots with the rapid iteration programming techniques of Extreme Programming that use SmallTalk and Java scripting. Examples were shown to illustrate the value of the software to business and education.

With permission of the the presenter, the RunTime presentation has been provided for the ITC as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. To read this file, you will need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.