Story telling is a process of conveying events by words, images and sounds. It has been used in every culture as a means of entertainment, education or for instilling moral values. The power of story telling has now been realized by computer science and software engineering community. It has been argued that story telling will enable the actual requirement to be identified earlier in the software development process. This approach has also been identified as one of the most suitable approach for end-user software development. A number of software development environment based on story telling approach have been developed, such as Storytelling Alice and JPie. Storytelling Alice is a programming environment that enables end-users (in this case students) to create computer applications by creating short 3D animated movies. JPie is a programming environment that was designed to enable endusers to develop programs by using Java programming language. In this paper, we describe the design of a story telling approach for blocks integration in Block-Based Software Development Environment. A block is basically a single-layer software component that can perform a specific function. It is assumed that in this environment, there will be a large number of blocks to be used by the end-users through story telling approach. Endusers can develop applications by writing instructions for selecting, customizing and combining software blocks to form a learning application as target application.
The seMeja desktop system is a desktop environment designed for university students. The system needs to provide access to online university services such as course registration, and lecture notes through a variety of applications. In order to facilitate the creation of these applications, a special application programming language (API) for the system is being designed. The design of the API is based on the principles of Create, Read, Update and Delete (CRUD). To the basic four, we add the concept of 'Notify' to support registration for push-style notifications and updates. These principles are then combined with an established university ontology that defines the various objects used in a university environment. Therefore, any calls to the API can be thought of as a CRUD operation on a university object. This paper presents the initial design for this university API.
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