Lessons Learned : Four Packages Shine in Different Subjects

 
May 14, 2001
The May 15th, 2001 edition of eWeek contains a very interesting article by Russell Windman. He recently took a look at some of the various applications that are "expected to perform the functions of communications programs, database programs and HTML authoring tools, to name a few," and laid it on the line for the lay person trying to master these new tools. Not only are these tools constantly change and improving, but quite often they require "a programmer's understanding of code syntax."

After a Macromedia/Allen Interactions presentation (which won Macromedia a "B" grade), one of the judges involved in the study bluntly asked: "Can you tell me how long it will take the average faculty member to do what you did here?" Windman reports that "The presenter's answer was candid. 'In Authorware, a newbie might take 8 hours to do what I did in an hour and a half.'"

Candid, indeed ? and something most of us need to keep in mind.

Four Packages Shine in Different Subjects (ZDNet Tech InfoBase / eWeek, May 13, 2001)
Authoring Tool Scorecard (ZDNet Tech InfoBase / eWeek, May 14, 2001)
Lessons Learned (ZDNet Tech InfoBase / eWeek, May 13, 2001)
The *Everyman* Factor (ZDNet Tech InfoBase / eWeek, May 15, 2001)


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