[Year 12 Its] REALbasic 4 Mac, Win & now Linux

[Zach Alexakos]

Hello Donna, Con,
I tried to migrate some VB programs to Real Basic last year but was unable
to. They were simple programs eg: temp.conversion programs in VB6.

Zach Alexakos,
Nth Geelong SC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Con Zymaris" <conz at cyber.com.au>
To: "Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List"
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Cc: "Year 11 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List"
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Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 Its] REALbasic 4 Mac, Win & now Linux


> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:48:10AM +1000, Donna Benjamin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just discovered that REALsoftware have released a public beta of
> > REALbasic for linux.  You can also download a demo for the mac and
> > windows versions.
> >
> > As I was perusing their website (I've used REALbasic on the mac ages
> > ago) I discovered this page focussed on teaching programming
> > http://www.realsoftware.com/users/education/
> > http://www.realsoftware.com/users/learn/
> >
> > and not only that, they've apparently developed a curriculum for
> > secondary school students with little or no programming experience and
> > you can download it here:
> > http://www.realsoftware.com/users/education/curriculum/
> >
> > REALbasic is a serious alternative to VB with the added advantage that
> > it's truly cross-platform. They have a showcase of software developed
> > with REALbasic - here's the page that jumps direct to 'educational
> > software'.
> > http://www.realsoftware.com/community/showcase/education/
>
>
> I'm not sure how 100% VB compatible this is, but If you're not worrying
> about migrating a 50,000 line VB codebase but only using this as an
> educational tool, then this isn't a problem.
>
> Also of interest, their Standard version, for Linux, is free of cost. I
> believe it is intended to remain free in future too.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Con Zymaris, Convenor
> Open Source Victoria
> http://www.osv.org.au/
> -- 
>
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