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- STUDENT AID - REVISION HISTORY
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- Date of
- Vers Last Mod. Improvements/Fixes/History
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- 0.1 16-Oct-88 Initial intuition based version, VERY LIMITED release,
- Filled with bugs. Never fully functional.
- Created mostly as a brainstorming aid for a later vers.
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- 1.0 10-Dec-89 The Initial cli version.
- Programmed as a C Project for class.
- No option to delete files.
- Random crashes in print to file routine.
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- 1.1 31-May-90 Revamped version 1.0
- Released only to close friends.
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- 1.2 01-Jan-91 Modified version 1.1 with option to delete.
- Rewrote Print & Scores Routines.
- System was still buggy (tests were too big!)
- Released for one-time magazine publication.
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- 1.3 13-Jun-91 Total intuition based rewrite, why did I try this?
- Tried to rewrite file system for smaller tests.
- Stored for future ref.- never released to public.
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- 1.4 28-Jan-92 Total Rewrite (Changed programming languages!)
- Full featured! Included all the ideas I never did before!
- Smaller test storage! (Incompatible with previous versions!)
- Reads Help from an (79X99 line max) ascii file!
- Added Quotes (for amusement)
- Added Save description as filenote ability.
- Added Various (5) Answer formats
- Added Configuration change options
- Added Print Individual Question/Answer ability.
- Added Why & Summary windows, and verbose/brief take option.
- Changed scores idea to Grades, optimized it.
- No SAVE Option! Released to public
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- 1.5 28-Jan-92 Similar to Vers. 1.4, But with a working (& FAST) save.
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- PLANNED IMPROVEMENTS
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- o Transport to a faster programming language.
- o Speed up LOAD test operations. Currently string handling is being done
- at a snails pace.
- o Integrate the Intuition into it (replace the 'gadget emulation' with
- actual intuition gadgets) and add multitasking ability.
- o Remove dependancy of system commands (ie.. filenote, copy, and delete)
- As well as RAM: device/handler for processing.
- o Reduce required memory to less than 512K
- o Fix string inputs to take advantage of auto repeat, and possible
- edit commands (like delete to end of line, copy lines ...)
- o Fix Format to realign answer to new format, I avoided doing this because
- of a limitation in the compiler.
- o Remove some of the current limitations, some of which are currently:
- - Max questions per test = 50
- - Max tests in test drawer = 100 (don't push it!)
- - Max lines in help file = 100 (80 characters per line max)
- ...
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