How to Use SmartTutor Ying Zhang [email protected] Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China 1 Outline About SmartTutor How to Use SmartTutor ¾ Install SmartTutor in Eclipse ¾ Run SmartTutor • Record and Replay User Actions • Edit Actions and Authoring Tutorials 2 About SmartTutor A plug-in in Eclipse ¾ Based one the previous work SmartReplayer. It can author Eclipse-based interactive tutorials with little programming efforts ¾ These tutorials can not only give novice programmers step-by-step instructions on how to perform tasks in Eclipse • Creating an Swing/SWT project, checking out a CVS project, using the EMF/GMF framework, etc. ¾ They can also make the tutorial-learning process be more interactive: • Locating onscreen UI objects motioned in instructions • Highlighting instructions to help the novice avoid missing steps while learning • Automatically performing some steps, while leaving the others to perform manually • … 3 A Snapshot of Such Interactive Tutorials 4 Software and Platform Requirements Software Requirements ¾ SmartTutor plug-in • It is available at http://code.google.com/p/smarttutor/ ¾ Eclipse • Version 3.2 or 3.3 • SmartTutor plug-in has not been tested under Eclipse ver.3.4 yet. Will be done. ¾ JDK 1.6 • In order to run Eclipse v3.2 or v3.3 full functionally, JDK 1.6 is required. Platform Requirements ¾ Windows XP, 2003 server, or Vista ¾ Linux may be OK • Not fully test 5 Install SmartTutor Please put the SmartTutor plug-in into the “plugins” folder which located under the Eclipse’s installation directory ¾ The SmartTutor plug-in’s name is edu.pku.tutorial.plugin_v****.jar (*is version number) Restart Eclipse You will find the SmartTutor icon appeared in the Eclipse’s toolbar: ¾ Click it to start SmartTutor 6 The Basic SmartTutor UI Record Press it for recording actions SmartTutor Controller Stop Recording Replay All Actions Single Step Replay End Step Use this function for resetting states If replay failed 7 The Performed User Actions of A CVS Task User Action Tree 8 Mark as Template Click to Open the Tutorial Editor 9 The Extended SmartTutor UI Authoring an Interactive Tutorial 10 The CVS Interactive Tutorial 11 Using This Tutorial Step Hint 12 Substitute Templates 13 Step Hint 14