Product Description

Even a little programming can go a long way in terms of increasing your ability to create meaningful interactions for your e-Learning. 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. 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.

Review

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). --Martha H. Weller, e-Learning Developer

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). --Martha H. Weller, e-Learning Developer<br /><br />The folks at Platte Canyon have done it again! They have created yet another way to enable me, a non-programmer training professional, to get more from the e-Learning tools that I use. In the past their help has come in the form of plug-ins for ToolBook, conferences and workshops, and computer-based training on how to develop e-Learning. This time their handy tool is in the form of a book a reference guide that e-Learning developers will actually want to sit down and read.

As much as I would like to know more about programming, the reality is that I haven't found the time to learn more over the past 10 years I have been involved in e-Learning, so chances are I will never find the time. Instead, I rely on whatever tools, tips and cheats I can find to bring interactive functionality to my training without being a full-time programmer. Programming for e-Learning Developers provides that cheat in that it gives me clear examples to follow, but I find myself being drawn into the book further with simple, clear and straightforward explanations of why something works the way that it does. Not only does this enable me to accomplish the immediate task at hand by following an example, but the background information that I absorb serves as a foundation to build similar, but different interactions on my own further down the road. With this book, I am learning programming skills on-the-job without spending months in training.

Programming for e-Learning Developers is the first how to book that I know of that specifically focuses on the type of interactions I want to build into my training. I feel like it was written for me! This is the book that all e-Learning developers should have at their fingertips when they are working on projects. And, while I am not yet programming in Flash or Silverlight, in the future when I am it will be great to have a type of programmers translation dictionary that shows me the way I am comfortable doing something (using the ToolBook Actions Editor in most cases) and then shows me how to do it in a different language such as Flash or JavaScript.

Many thanks to the Platte Canyon team for continuing to make my life as a non-programmer ToolBook developer easy and painless. I would not be having nearly as much fun as I am without all of the tools they have developed to help make me look good while at the same time, creating cool training applications. If there is a superman in this world, he has to be Jeff Rhodes by day! --Robin McDermott, Resource Engineering, Inc.<br /><br />Wow, Hello World!, Bonjour monde!, Hallo Welt!, Hola mundo! - That's Hello World! in four languages, but here I have not let on which language is which:-) Jeff has excelled once again, here we have a book that clearly explains, step by step, how to do the much loved popup box - This is a test in ToolBook OpenScript, ToolBook Actions, Flash, Silverlight and JavaScript. But wait, there's more to this book than Hello World!, Jeff takes us through many examples of easily understood programming tasks detailing how to achieve these tasks using more than one tool. I highly recommend this book to you. --Peter Jackson, ToolBookDeveloper.com

The folks at Platte Canyon have done it again! They have created yet another way to enable me, a non-programmer training professional, to get more from the e-Learning tools that I use. In the past their help has come in the form of plug-ins for ToolBook, conferences and workshops, and computer-based training on how to develop e-Learning. This time their handy tool is in the form of a book a reference guide that e-Learning developers will actually want to sit down and read.

As much as I would like to know more about programming, the reality is that I haven't found the time to learn more over the past 10 years I have been involved in e-Learning, so chances are I will never find the time. Instead, I rely on whatever tools, tips and cheats I can find to bring interactive functionality to my training without being a full-time programmer. Programming for e-Learning Developers provides that cheat in that it gives me clear examples to follow, but I find myself being drawn into the book further with simple, clear and straightforward explanations of why something works the way that it does. Not only does this enable me to accomplish the immediate task at hand by following an example, but the background information that I absorb serves as a foundation to build similar, but different interactions on my own further down the road. With this book, I am learning programming skills on-the-job without spending months in training.

Programming for e-Learning Developers is the first how to book that I know of that specifically focuses on the type of interactions I want to build into my training. I feel like it was written for me! This is the book that all e-Learning developers should have at their fingertips when they are working on projects. And, while I am not yet programming in Flash or Silverlight, in the future when I am it will be great to have a type of programmers translation dictionary that shows me the way I am comfortable doing something (using the ToolBook Actions Editor in most cases) and then shows me how to do it in a different language such as Flash or JavaScript.

Many thanks to the Platte Canyon team for continuing to make my life as a non-programmer ToolBook developer easy and painless. I would not be having nearly as much fun as I am without all of the tools they have developed to help make me look good while at the same time, creating cool training applications. If there is a superman in this world, he has to be Jeff Rhodes by day! --Robin McDermott, Resource Engineering, Inc.

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