Programming for e-Learning Developers: ToolBook®, Flash®, JavaScript™, and Silverlight™
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As an e-Learning developer since 1993, I have found that even a little programming can go a long way in terms of increasing our ability to create meaningful interactions for our users. To do that, however,
entails understanding basic programming concepts like events, properties, and methods. Add to that the
requirement to perform more advanced tasks like adding hyperlinks, communicating via SCORM™ with your Learning Management System, loading media or graphics, and using a web service to send email from your application, and you have the need for some "real" programming. Rather than hiring a pricey consultant, however, you can use this book to learn the concepts to get the job done.
Many e-Learning developers use multiple tools. Even if you stick to a single tool like Flash or ToolBook, you still likely have the need to make external JavaScript calls in order to get extra functionality. So rather than focus on a single tool, this book takes each of our programming challenges and solves it in ToolBook - OpenScript, ToolBook - Actions Editor, Flash, JavaScript, and Silverlight. While you may not use all these environments currently, seeing the similarly of programming concepts across all the environments will enhance your skills in your tool(s) of choice.
For a detailed listing of topics, please see the book's Table of Contents.
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About the Author:
Jeff Rhodes is the Chief Technical Officer and owner of Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation, a leader in developing commercial software that Improves the Lives of Training Developers™. He graduated at the top of his class at the Air Force Academy, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. Jeff received a Master's degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, which he attended under a British Marshall Scholarship. Jeff is the author of VBTrain.Net™: Creating Computer and Web Based Training with Visual Basic® .NET and co-wrote The ToolBook® Companion. He has had numerous articles on training development published and is a frequent presenter at conferences both in the U.S. and Europe. Jeff lives in Colorado Springs with his wife Sue and sons Derek and Michael.
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I particularly like the way Rhodes deals with the usual things that are hard to explain and get right. He is, for example, very good about giving the reader warnings about things that can go wrong. He even addressed practices that open JavaScript up to script attacks – something every developer needs to be keenly aware of these days.
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Your book arrived and we are all impressed, not only on the content, but the way that you have it organized and made so easy to make parallels between the languages. It gives a lot of confidence to “cook” ideas in a tool-independent way. That’s what I think put you light years ahead ordinary references and some common corporate IT thinking. Thanks!
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This is an absolute MUST HAVE! For many years now training developers have needed to use more than just one tool to build effective, engaging interactive training, few will disagree that there is not one tool that can do everything. So where does that leave us? We need to be "Jack of all and master of ..." This one book will help you understand the different coding techniques and syntaxes between different tools and programming languages. No, you don't need to be a programmer either.
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This wonderful walk through “e-learning Multimedia-Land” is like having a Park Ranger give you all of the details of Banff National Park. Jeffrey has been in the e-learning business longer than most Park Rangers have been in the parks, and this book delivers all of his years of experience – what works and what doesn’t and the how-to’s, like linking up with the big LMS’s, using the right tool for the right job, traversing the old established legacy tools and the new hi-tech tools, and bringing it all together into your final product that will instruct and teach and help others grow.
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The book is crammed full of keen insights and time-saving tips! The reader will benefit greatly from Jeff’s enthusiasm and unrelenting search for answers to the tough questions (i.e., those handy undocumented features).
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I've scanned your first couple of chapters and am all fired up - I like it!