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

[tonym school]

Hi all
2 key questions for me are:
Is Real Basic an approved language for Info Sys?
Can it be used to put a "front end" on Excel Spreadsheets? - My
understanding is that this is done a fair bit with VB and Excel in some Info
Sys courses.
There is a tutorial of 100+ lessons at a site called Realbasic University.
(I can not vouch for the quality.) The link is below.
http://www.applelinks.com/rbu/

Cheers Tony

> From: Con Zymaris <conz at cyber.com.au>
> Reply-To: Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List
> <is at edulists.com.au>
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:00:22 +1000
> To: Year 12 Information Technology Systems Teachers' Mailing List
> <is at edulists.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 Its] REALbasic 4 Mac, Win & now Linux
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:22:19PM +1000, Zach Alexakos wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Would be about right I think. The key question is 'exactly how many mods
> do I need in order to make this VB code compile in RB?'.
> 
> Regardless, as mentioned, unless you were 'porting' an app across, this
> isn't a real issue for most of the members of this forum, as your students
> will be creating new apps in either platform. What is an issue is how
> similar the languages and environment are, for you as instructor.
> 
> Cheers,
>  
> Con Zymaris, Convenor
> Open Source Victoria
> http://www.osv.org.au/
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