Re: [rant] "Never mind the quality, feel the width!"
Re: [rant] "Never mind the quality, feel the width!"
- Subject: Re: [rant] "Never mind the quality, feel the width!"
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:11:09 -0500
> On Nov 30, 2014, at 16:16 , Jim Weisbin <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I don't really understand this claim. 99% of people I know who have a mac have no idea what AppleScript is or what they could use it for. It doesn't seem to be affecting the utility of their machines. Even in my own case, I switched to the mac in 2004, but never picked up AppleScript till 2011. Didn't stop me from using my mac very productively before that.
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> For a single user environment Applescript is probably overkill.
Not really.
So how do I use Applescript…
My department used to be responsible for remedial level Math courses, the 2 courses final were made up of questions randomly selected from each “section” of Master files which contain thousands of questions.
It was a 1 day chore before I came in. The master files are in Word, with equations made be Equation Editor (therefore pictures) and Latex. It takes me, after I created a script, literally less than a minute to do all the 14 different versions (7 of each). Word takes longer.
I keep a (Numbers) spreadsheet with all my classes information, attendance, homework, quizzes, exams and final grade. These spreadsheets are created in seconds with AppleScript.
Once I have those, attendance is taken using AppleScript (one reason my officemate wanted to buy a Mac) and when done in the classroom, my students get a kick out of it. Grades are entered using AppleScript.
From these spreadsheets a webpage is created, for each of my student, with all their information.
The background color of their webpage is based on their grade (F lighter, A darker). They don’t know that.
These files are uploaded using AppleScript.
I create my exams in Latex, then from one version I made many by scrambling the exams AppleScripting TexShop.
Finally, I have to enter in Banner some information, either current grade, attendance but also student participation, homework activity etc. It was a miserable pain in the neck to do it. Now It is done in one second, I just have to review the result (problems with Banner, not AS). AppleScript again.
These are just some of the things that I use AS for.
I have made some stuff for my wife (using Smile, which I also use to create animations for classes I teach, among other stuff) and created other apps that I use constantly.
I am primarily a Mac user because of AppleScript.
Deivy Petrescu
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