Wednesday, August 14, 2013

RAPTOR: Flowchart-based programming environment

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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.

Click here to see a picture of RAPTOR. For a paper describing the use of RAPTOR in a general education course, click here.

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Where/how are you using RAPTOR? I keep a list of what schools and universities are using RAPTOR and for what class. This helps me plan future advancements. Please email me and let me know.

NOTE! The installer was signed with a US Department of Defense certificate. You can get the root certificates from DoD Class 3 PKI Root Certificates

Portable Version

John Meir from Midlands Tech created a Portable App version (PortableApps.com). This allows RAPTOR to be used from a USB key or similar without installing. You can download the portable versionhere.
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