Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 22:57:15 GMT Server: Apache/1.0.5 Content-type: text/html Content-length: 3985 Last-modified: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 18:49:36 GMT
The Design of LearningWorks
Adele Goldberg, Neometron
adele@neometron.com
Jobs in commercial software development are team jobs. The teams build systems that bring value to their customers. New hires, whether fresh out of school or transferring from other commercial projects, are successful only if they can contribute to the team's goals. Yet the formal education of these new hires emphasized programming, not system building, and rarely offered team experience in creating and maintaining large systems. What might a curriculum focused on teaching system building contain?
Faced with that question, I set out to design a new system that would
support authoring and delivering such a curriculum. The result is
LearningWorks , available for free on the Internet. The purpose of this talk is to
discuss the user interface design for LearningWorks, specifically how the
simple metaphor of learning books can be used both to teach software system
building concepts and to support teams in building systems.
She was recipient of the ACM Systems Software Award in 1987 along with Dan Ignalls and Alan Kay, PC Magazine's 1990 Lifetime Achievement Award for her significant contributions to the personal computer industry, is a Fellow of the ACM, and was honored in 1995 with the Reed College Howard Vollum Award for contributions to science and technology. She is currently a member of the scientific advisory board of the German National Research Centers (GMD), the governing board of the San Francisco Exploratorium, and is a director of Cogito Learning Media, a private company developing supplemental materials for college-level science and business courses.
Information provided for the Stanford Computer Science Department by the HCI Course Coordinator as part of the description ofHCI at Stanford. Last updated October 13, 1996.