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> Someone mentioned that Blackbox is used in Russian universities and
schools.
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> 2) Do you know university profs who use BB?
Vologda State University. Courses + "projects". They heavily rely on
Oberons, BB is offered to students as an option.
Moscow (Lomonosov) State University. BB is used at the physics department
for teaching an introductory/intermediate course (one of several) + all
possible "projects", typically a project at the end of 2nd year to
complete introductory programming cycle (computer modelling of a physics
problem);
+ any diploma with me as a scientific advisor is likely to contain a
significant dose of BlackBox programming.
Orel State University -- a course on numerical math.
Moscow Aviation University (am not sure about its correct English name) --
a compiler construction course (I have no details).
The list is incomplete. I expect a number of courses to start this coming
Fall in Tomsk and Novosibirsk (as a result of Wirth's Fall 2005 journey).
> 1) Is BB used only for TEACHING or also for doing projects, diploma
theses etc.?
Vologda and Moscow: both. I am not sure about others.
> IF BB is used for projects, it would be useful to organize them (common
website like
http://www.oberon.ethz.ch, inclusion in an eMail list,
probably even a Russian one, ...).
Creating a repository of student projects is an additional effort, but
something is likely to materialize in the due course.
There is a third site in addition to what Marc Frei listed:
http://blackbox.metasystems.ru
This site is actually a good (I think currently the best) candidate for
hosting our international BlackBox forum. A Russian-language forum is
already there:
http://blackbox.metasystems.ru/forum/
Note that the Russian BlackBox development community is actually centered
around this site. It is managed from the city of Orel.
cheers
fyodor tkachov
ftkachov{([at]})nowhere.xy
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