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Interactive tutorial
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Inventors: Chan, Kevin; Melhem, Wassim; Seelemann, Dirk Alexander; Spatafora, Vito; Starkey, Michael;
Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)
Primary Examiner: Hughes; S. Thomas
Assistant Examiner: Sotomayor; John
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Duffield; Edward H., Flynn; John D.
The invention pertains to a computer tutorial system wherein software product training is provided interactively by guiding the user, for example, through one or more examples or applications that can be created in and/or using the product. More particularly, the invention involves a computer implemented, interactive tutorial system providing online instruction in conjunction with a contemporaneously operating software product to, for example, create such examples or applications and the tutorial system further providing for the creation of such examples or applications in and/or using the product. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Accordingly, there is provided a method for providing an interactive tutorial of a software product comprising the steps of presenting tutorial content relating to the software product through a tutorial system; initiating a transfer of data to the software product, the data being associated with the tutorial and defining an application of the software product; transferring the data from the tutorial system to the software product upon the initiation of the data transfer; and processing of the data in the software product to render the application of the software product defined by the data.
The above method may further comprise the step of providing a user interactivity element for initiating a transfer of the data and wherein initiating a transfer of the data is caused through activation of the user interactivity element.
The user interactivity element may be a push button and activation of the user interactivity element comprises clicking the push button.
Further, the method may be provided wherein the step of initiating a transfer of data to the software product comprises loading the data and establishing a connection with the software product.
The software product may also comprise a World Wide Web Distributed Authority and Versioning industry standard (WebDAV) server and the connection is according to the WebDAV protocol.
The method may also be provided wherein the loading is done by an applet.
Also, the method may be provided wherein the step of processing of the data in the software product comprises receipt by the WebDAV server of the data and processing of the data by the WebDAV server for execution of commands and updating of information in the software product.
The above methods also may be provided wherein the software product is a software application development product and the data defines a software application developed in the software application development product.
And, the methods may further comprise the step of configuring the tutorial content based on information in the software product through data transfer to the tutorial system
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