CAI: Computer Assisted Learning Software

This essay does not describe an existing computer program, just one that should exist. This essay is about a suggested student project in Java programming. This essay gives a rough overview of how it might work. I have no source, object, specifications, file layouts or anything else useful to implementing this project. Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; I have too many other projects of my own.

I do contract work for a living, which could include writing a program such as this. However, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project in any way you please and to keep all the profits from your endeavor.

To start, select some tasks to teach by computer. Pick a variety, e.g. some mathematics, some reading comprehension, some foreign language.

Implement those, using as many common classes as possible, doing them all in a stereotyped way. When you are done, implement yet another lesson. Take a highlighter and highlight the code that would be interesting to a layman author of such a lesson. Now see if you can find a way to automatically generate the rest.

Then see if you can generate any of the verbose Java code using a more terse syntax.

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