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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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User Comments

  • The book has been really helpful. I have created a C# assembly for silverlight that handles all of the scorm calls. Just have to find the time to do the testing on it.
  • I am most impressed by your work in "Programming for e-Learning Developers"--your knowledge of all four programs and your ability to draw from each of them to enlighten understanding of the others!
  • Your book came today and it looks like a ray of sunshine after a long cloudy winter!
  • I believe that a person new to programming will find Rhodes’ examples extremely useful in coming up to speed in any of the four tools.
  • You've done a really great job on this book. Although I no longer involve myself in programming (I never was formally trained), a book like this allows me to be an intelligent customer for software design services and that is a really important benefit. For those of us running our own production houses, we need to have enough knowledge to detect the bullshit!
  • If you’re worried about your existing code in earlier technology and how to take advantage of new features without breaking the bank - this book is for you. If you’re worried about how to work in cross-software technology to take advantage of all of the new capability that is spewing out of totally different faucets - this book is also for you. Jeff is a man who builds products in all of these different technologies, and now he is sharing his best cross-software approaches with you.
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