Raptor 2012

RAPTOR

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RAPTOR is a flowchart-based programming environment, designed specifically to help students visualize their algorithms and avoid syntactic baggage.  RAPTOR programs are created visually and executed visually by tracing the execution through the flowchart.  Required syntax is kept to a minimum.  Students prefer using flowcharts to express their algorithms, and are more successful creating algorithms using RAPTOR than using a traditional language or writing flowcharts without RAPTOR.

NEW INSTALLER!  This installer has been tested on Windows XP SP3 (32 bit), Windows XP Tablet PC (32 bit), Windows 7 Professional (32 and 64 bit) and Vista Business (64 bit).  This installer should eliminate many installation bugs from the Microsoft Ink DLL.

NEW FEATURES:

• Can now have plugin methods that return String.
• Input and Output dialogs no longer have radios to select text vs. expression.  This seemed more confusing than helpful.  Now all prompts/outputs are expressions.  Be sure to use "" (quotation marks).
• Set_Precision(digits) allows you to specify how many digits of precision will be in an output.  Set_Precision(2) is useful for currency.  Set_Precision(-1) returns to the default floating precision (4 significant figures).
• Redirect_Output_Append allows you to redirect output to a file, appending the data on the end.
• Current_Year, Current_Month, Current_Day, Current_Hour, Current_Minute, Current_Second, Current_Millisecond -- new time functions
• Current_Time -- returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1990 (midnight).