The Old Teaching Machine Home Page

The Teaching Machine is a tool for interactively animating C++ and Java programs. It can be run either as a stand-alone program or as an applet. This page links you to some of the sites we've developed using the Teaching Machine applet.

For more information contact Theodore Norvell (theo@engr.mun.ca) or Michael P. Bruce-Lockhart (mpbl@engr.mun.ca).

Visit our new home page at www.TeachingMachine.org.

The Fine Print: All code is Copyright Michael Bruce-Lockhart and Theodore Norvell. Permission is granted for you to download the Teaching Machine Applet or application for evaluation purposes.

Announcing the TM 2

• Improved support for Java.
• Plug-ins. The Teaching Machine is now built as a set of interacting plug-ins. This is so that other developers can easily add new views, new editors, and (in the future) other sorts of plug-ins.
• Swing: The GUI is now built on top of Swing.
• A built in code editor.
• A new configuration file format.

Downloads

Download the Teaching Machine 2, the TM2 Eclispse plug-in, and WebWriter++

This download is available for evaluation purposes and for personal use. If you want to use the Teaching Machine in a course you instruct, please let us know.

1. Download the distribution.:
• The most recent stable version: TM-Distribution-2008-01-03.zip
  • Requirements.
    • This version of the Teaching Machine 2 should run on any java virtual machine that supports version 1.5 of Java and the J2SE version 1.5 libraries.
    • WebWriter++ runs on recent versions of Firefox or IE with the Sun Java plug-in, provided the Java plug-in is version 1.5.0 or higher.
    • The TM2 Eclipse Plug-in runs on versions 3.1 and 3.2 of Eclipse.
2. Extract to a directory on your hard disk
3. Open the index.html file in the top folder with a web-browser

Before you go further

• Ensure that Java is enabled.  In I.E. 5.0, set Java Permissions to at least "High Safety" in the security tab of the Internet Options.
• In I.E. 5.0, you also have to enable "Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting" in the security tab of the Internet Options.
• Ensure that you have JIT enabled (in I.E., see the Advanced tab of Internet Options).

Now start the TM by clicking on one of the following

• Presentation given at WebDays, April, 2004. Internet Explorer 6.0 or Mozilla 1.4 or FireFox 1.0 minimum is required. This may take a while to start.
• Presentation given at the Canadian Conference on Computer and Software Engineering Education (C3SEE), in Calgary, March 2004. Internet Explorer 6.0 or Mozilla 1.4 or FireFox 1.0 minimum is required. This may take a while to start.
• The Teaching Machine applied to various examples from our Advanced Programming course and our Data Structures Course. Internet Explorer 4.0 or Mozilla 1.4 or FireFox 1.0 or greater is recommended. This may take a while, as close to a half megabyte of code will be downloaded.
• The course website for Engr 2420. Internet Explorer 6.0 or Mozilla 1.4 or FireFox 1.0 minimum is required. This may take a while to start.
• The course website for Engr 3891. Internet Explorer 6.0 or Mozilla 1.4 or FireFox 1.0 minimum is required. This may take a while to start.
• The course notes for Engr 4892 . Internet Explorer 6.0 or Mozilla 1.4 or FireFox 1.0 minimum is required. This may take a while to start.

Other links

• The Help file for the TM.