System for generating a tutorial application
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorGary Douglas Chapman
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Abstract
The invention relates to the field of source code development and in particular a method and system for generating a tutorial application from one or more selected source code elements. The invention provides for a user to select one or source code elements and one or more data elements to be tagged to one or more source code elements. The selected source code elements are tagged using a mark-up language and a tutorial application is generated displaying the tagged selected source code elements and the data elements.
Claims7
A system for generating a single tutorial application linked to one or more source code files, the system comprising:
- means for receiving user input indicating one or more source code elements to be selected and one or more data elements to be tagged to one or more selected source code elements;
- means for tagging one or more selected source code elements with one or more data elements;
- means for generating the single tutorial application linked to one or more source code files from said tagged source code elements;
- means for displaying the generated single tutorial application, the tagged source code elements, and the data elements in a display interface,
- wherein the display interface simultaneously displays:
- a list of tutorial steps contained within the generated single tutorial application;
- a code window containing a source code element associated with a selected one of the tutorial steps of the list of tutorial steps;
- and
- an explanation window containing the one or more data elements associated with the source code element displayed in the code window,
- and
- means for selectively running the source code element displayed in the code window, wherein the means for displaying simultaneously displays results of the running in a results window, the list of tutorial steps, the code window, and the explanation window;
- wherein each of the list of tutorial steps, the code window, the explanation window, and the results window are integrated as separate segments of the generated single tutorial application within a single window, and
- wherein the generated single tutorial application is self-contained.
A computer program product directly loaded into the internal memory of a digital computer, comprising software code portions for generating a single tutorial application linked to one or more source code files when said product is run on the digital computer, the computer program product comprising software code portions for:
- receiving user input indicating one or more source code elements to be selected and one or more data elements to be tagged to one or more selected source code elements;
- tagging one or more selected source code elements with one or more of the data elements;
- generating the single tutorial application linked to one or more source code files from said tagged source code elements;
- displaying the generated single tutorial application, the tagged source code elements, and the data elements in a display interface,
- wherein the display interface simultaneously displays:
- a list of tutorial steps contained within the generated single tutorial application;
- a code window containing a source code element associated with a selected one of the tutorial steps of the list of tutorial steps;
- and
- an explanation window containing the one or more data elements associated with the source code element displayed in the code window,
- and
- selectively running the source code element displayed in the code window, wherein results of the running are displayed in a results window in the display interface simultaneously with the list of tutorial steps, the code window, and the explanation window;
- wherein each of the list of tutorial steps, the code window, the explanation window, and the results window are integrated as separate segments of the generated single tutorial application within a single window, and
- wherein the generated single tutorial application is self-contained.
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