User:Scott McDonald
Scott McDonald
My name is Scott McDonald which is not an uncommon name on the web or in the telephone book. I am the one based in Sydney, Australia, who is a software developer and has been using Delphi programming tools since they were first released in 1995, and now uses Revolution with revTalk as preferred tool in his work.
About me
Programming has not always been my passion. After studying at the University of Sydney and completing a Science Degree and a Diploma of Education I tried my hand at secondary school teaching, that's students aged between about 12 and 18 years here, and found it challenging. That is an understatement - it was simply really really hard.
I doff my hat to anyone and everyone who is a successful teacher, you do an important job that didn't suit me. Despite saying for repeatedly that I would never be a programmer (too boring was the usual comment) what did I do? Listened to and acted on a request by a previous colleague from the school I taught at and then wrote a piece of software for teachers to use on the school computers that were then known as IBM PC's. Here you can see screen images of this early software if you like. It was a gradebook type of program.
These days RunRevPlanet is taking up most of my time as I am fully into programming with Revolution, which is a "suped-up" HyperCard descendent that offers the potential of incredible productivity increases for software developers. Revolution was the solution for my need to do cross-platform development which Delphi sadly lacks, and has since become my platform of choice. My years of writing well structured code in Pascal/Delphi is now been applied to revTalk and Revolution in the production of stacks (libraries and components) to save the time of other developers.
When not working on the above, or doing family things, taking time out with computer games (as a gamer or creating them) is diverting. Guilty of too much time on screens? Probably.
What I am up to
- Working on the above
- Writing components and stacks in revTalk
- Developing and expanding www.runrevplanet.com
- Maintaining www.teacherspersonalmarkbook.com
- Making Teacher's Personal Markbook cross-platform, using Revolution -- of course.
Contact me
- Send me an email at
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- Try my talk page
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