Introduction to the Software 2 - Introduction


Welcome!

You will be working with four software applications in this course, Netscape, SimplePlayer, Macromedia Projector, and HyperCard. You will use Netscape to view the bulk of the course material which has been published as World Wide Web pages ("web pages" for short). Embedded within the web pages you will find a number of animations. Some are QuickTime movies that run on SimplePlayer, software that should already exist on your Mac. (If you are using and IBM...) Other, more interactive animations, come to you as Director Projector files. So long as you have installed the Shockwave Plug-in in your Netscape Plug-ins folder, these files will run automatically, prompting you with specific instructions when necessary. Finally, there are a few HyperCard exercises that you will download from the web pages that require HyperCard to run. Note that some of the later simulations are self-contained programs, complete with their own online help systems.