The TUTOR Language

The Articles in this work are adapted from:

The TUTOR Language by Bruce Arne Sherwood

Computer-based Education Research Laboratory and Department of Physics University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois Copyright © 1977 by Bruce Arne Sherwood.

ISBN: 0-918852-00-5 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 77-77589

Reproduction and Repurpose granted by Author.

• Preface

1. Introduction
   1. How to Use This Book
   2. Sample Plato Lessons
   3. The PLATO Keyboard
   4. Basic Aspects of TUTOR
2. More on Creating Displays
   1. Coarse Grid and Fine Grid
   2. The -box-, -vector-, and -circle- Commands
   3. Large-size Writing: -size- and -rotate-
   4. Animations (Moving Displays): -erase and -pause-
   5. -pause-, -time-, and -catchup-
   6. The -mode- Command
   7. Automated Display Generation
3. Building Your Own Tools: The -do- Command
4. Doing Calculations in TUTOR
   1. Giving Names to Variables: -define-
   2. Repeated Operations: The Iterative -do-
   3. Showing the Value of a Variable
   4. Passing Arguments to Subroutines
5. Sequencing of Units Within A Lesson
   1. Summary of Sequencing Commands
   2. The -helpop- Command: "Help on Page"
   3. The -imain- Command
6. Conditional Commands
   1. Logical Expressions
   2. The Conditional -write- Command (-writec-)
   3. The Conditional -calc- Commands: -calcc- and -calcs-
   4. The Conditional -mode- Command
   5. The -goto- Command
   6. The Conditional Iterative -do-
   7. The -if- and -else- Commands
7. Judging Student Responses
   1. Student Specification of Numerical Parameters
   2. Student Specification of Non-Numerical Parameters
   3. Building Dialogs With -concept- and -vocabs-
   4. Numbering Vocabulary Words
   5. The -judge- Command
   6. Finding Key Words: The -match- and -storen- Commands
   7. Numerical and Algebraic Judging: -ansv- and -wrongv-
   8. Handling Scientific Units: -ansu-, -wrongu-, and -storeu-
   9. The -exact- and -exactc- Commands
   10. The -answerc- Command: A Language Drill
   11. Summary
8. More About Judging
   1. Repeated Execution of -join-
   2. The -goto- is a Regular Command
   3. Interactions of -arrow- with -size-, -rotate-, -long-, -jkey-, and -copy-
   4. Applications of -jkey- and -ans-
   5. Modifying the Response: -bump- and -put-
   6. Manipulating Character Strings
   7. Catching Every Key: -pause-, -keytype-, and -group-
   8. Touching the Screen
   9. Summary
9. Additional Display Features
   1. Additional Display Features
   2. The "initial entry unit" (ieu)
   3. Smooth Animations Using Special Characters
   4. Creating a New Character Set
   5. Micro Tables
   6. The Graphing Commands: Plotting Graphs with Scaling and Labeling
   7. Summary of Line-drawing Commands: -draw-, -gdraw-, -rdraw-
   8. The -window- Command
   9. More on Erasing: The -eraseu- Command
   10. Keeping Things on the Screen: "inhibit erase"
   11. Interaction of "inhibit erase" with -restart-
   12. The -char- and -plot- Commands
   13. The -dot- Command
10. Additional Calculation Topics
    1. Defining Your Own Functions
    2. Segmented Variables
    3. Branching Within a Unit: -branch- and -doto-
    4. Array Operations
    5. Integer Variables and Bit Manipulation
    6. Byte Manipulation
    7. Vertical Segments
    8. Alphanumeric to Numeric: The -compute- Command
    9. The -find- Command
    10. The -exit- Command
11. Manipulating Data Bases
    1. The -common- Command
    2. The Swapping Process
    3. The -storage- Command
    4. Using "datasets"
    5. Sorting Lists
12. Miscellany

1. Where to Get Further Information
2. List of TUTOR Commands
3. List of Built-in -calc- Functions
   1. System Variables
   2. Alphabetical List of Commands