Smalltalk - Thesis

Author

Thesis

Marcelo

2007-04-08, 4:18 am

Hi guys.

I started working with smalltalk a year ago, so I'm almost new in object
oriented programming.
Now I'm looking for a theme for my thesis, vinculated to smalltalk or object
oriented programming. (or maybe something not related to those)

I have been working with form processing (OCR, OMR, ICR), document scanning,
and I have some years of programming experience in visual basic.

Any help will be appreciated.
Regards,

panu

2007-04-09, 8:07 am

My suggestions for your thesis:

1. "Web-based Ajaxian GUI for Smalltalk".

For instance, take the free Squeak
server-side, and make it return some DHTML
that implements a basic Browser, Inspector,
and Transcript - and give guidelines on
how to implement more tools above the same
framework.

Think of ways of documenting the interface
between Squeak and web, so it would be easy
to port the result into other Smalltalks
as well.

2. "Converging the ST dialects"

Define a set of method- and class additions
that would allow all of the major ST dialects
to offer a well-defined subset of APIs that
work in any dialect. Perhaps making sure
the ST ANSI standard is implemented in each,
and investigating whether this is enough, or
whether there are ambiquities in the standard
that should be fixed.

If you choose either of these, I'm sure you
could get some help from the community too.

Good luck.

-Panu Viljamaa

Marcelo wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> I started working with smalltalk a year ago, so I'm almost new in object
> oriented programming.
> Now I'm looking for a theme for my thesis, vinculated to smalltalk or object
> oriented programming. (or maybe something not related to those)
>
> I have been working with form processing (OCR, OMR, ICR), document scanning,
> and I have some years of programming experience in visual basic.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
> Regards,
>
>

Udo Schneider

2007-04-09, 7:07 pm

panu wrote:
> My suggestions for your thesis:
>
>
> 1. "Web-based Ajaxian GUI for Smalltalk".
>
> For instance, take the free Squeak
> server-side, and make it return some DHTML
You could maybe even do an DHTML based window system
(like http://www.winlike.net/) on top of that.

CU,

Udo

bgridley@alltel.net

2007-04-23, 7:08 pm

On Apr 8, 1:22 am, "Marcelo" <marcelo39AThotmail.com> wrote:
....
> Now I'm looking for a theme for my thesis, vinculated to smalltalk or object
> oriented programming. (or maybe something not related to those)
>
> I have been working with form processing (OCR, OMR, ICR), document scanning,
> and I have some years of programming experience in visual basic.

Here is a general specification:
I want to be able to scan in the form that I will be printing,
display it accurately on the screen (zoomable, if possible), and drop
text and graphic holders as an overlay (transparent background,
allowing me to see thru to form) for each fill-in field. Then I need
to be able to 1.) print just the fill-ins on to provided forms. 2.)
print the entire form as scanned with the fill-ins completed.
Fpr completeness I also want:
The business of setting attributes for each fill-in field (Font,
coloring, etc) and copying and rearranging fields to other forms needs
to be simple and rapid. The ability to easily line up fields on a
page. Each form being represented by an object. Subparts of forms
being grouped as objects. An easy form versioning mechanism including
branching.

Is this sufficient to get you started? After tuning this by working
with some heavy users (Insurance state specific forms, medical
forms...), you should be able to make your fortune with a good
marketer at your side. Then you can thank the God who made you for
his provision.

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