Andrés at Joensuu

As mentioned in the last post, I have been trying to move experimentally Jeliot 3 source code to Launchpad. The idea is to check whether it is the right solution for new and forecoming Jeliot initiatives.

Today I have got a branch of Jeliot published in Launchpad. It is basically a mirror of the HEAD of our current CVS server.
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The tool I have been working with in the last years is having a new offspring, it seems it is the season for new-borns…

Jeliot 3 is meant to animate Java programs. Its animation and interface has gathered a number of followers during this time. In the last years people have required to change the language Jeliot understands and animates. Java is not always the preferred first language taught in schools and colleges. So people have been asking us to implement the tool to animate C, C++, python…Jeliot was designed to allow this new breed of languages, but we don’t have the resources to make it happen.

Recently, an Irish group from the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown got funding to implement a Jeliot version that animates C++, which they have named Jeliot-C. They were visiting Joensuu and met us to discuss how their development could proceed so that both of us will mutually benefit from new features implemented in Jeliot 3.
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I include here the material I presented at today’s PhD day.

• Presentation on Conflictive Animations: With a short background on what I did in Tanzania, introduction to the conflictive animations and call for help in a forthcoming animation. I can’t believe this kept us talking for one hour. Thanks everybody for your feedback and comments!
• Koli Paper on Conflictive Animations: Discussion paper presented at Koli last year, and spearhead of the ConAn concept
• The Error of Our Ways (Chapter from The End of Education, Neil Postman) Somebody smart writing about errors and human error-detectors. Insightful reading. Courtesy of Google Cache.