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From: (unknown charset) [at]} <Alexander>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:16:30 +0600

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Hello!

CS> Agreed - *any* activity and efforts intended for the advancement of BlackBox
CS> and Component Pascal are welcomed!
CS> Chris Burrows

  There is a movement in Russia and exUSSR that promotes BlackBox and
  Component Pascal as the ideal platform for school programming
  education. It was started and is now coordinated by Fyodor Tkachov
  (Moscow). Quite some teachers already use it successfully. Some tool
  libraries were developed, most of the translation work is done
  (documentations is not quite finished), courses are being read.

  I myself got a little involved. I helped to compile the BlackBox
  package for school (minus advanced tools, plus Toolbar, Mk, sample
  tasks, etc.). I helped to develop a command-line compiler so that
  Component Pascal could be used in automated testing environments,
  such as those found in programming competitions.

  The two main problems we see: lack of detailed tutorials in Russian,
  lack of simple awareness that such programming platform exists. We
  can now attack both problems, as we have received a request for
  a series of publications on programming from one of the major
  magazines for computer science school teachers. The first article by
  Anatoly Popkov and me (and Fyodor Tkachov as a consultant) was
  finished about a week ago and will be published early in 2008.

  The movement is gaining momentum, and we would like to humbly ask
  Cuno Pfister (if he is reading this list) to write some short
  greeting to the Russian teachers that we could use to add more
  weight to our work. Please, contact me for details.
  
  In the meantime I met Stefan Metzeler (the author of the relatively
  famous "Amadeus" framework library in Oberon-2), who came to my cold
  Siberian town early this November and spent a whole week here, and
  am now accepting congratulations: I'm now the CTO of "Amadeus IT
  Solutions".

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 Alexander

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