[plt-scheme] DrScheme as shared whiteboard?

This isn't exactly what you asked for but I think there's some overlap and maybe it would be useful or at least interesting to look at:

http://github.com/ianmcorvidae/code-immersion

It was written by my student/TA, Ian McEwen, for a course I taught last fall.

 -Lee


On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:

> I'd guess that any shared-desktop software with convenient voice conferencing would work OK.
> 
> I say voice, because I think you want fluid communication during pair programming, without taking interaction and eyes away from DrScheme.  (Voice is a load on some cognitive channel that is also used for programming and interacting with DrScheme, but we already have that in live pair programming.)
> 
> I'd also guess that some UI affordance analogous to who's pulled the keyboard in front of them would be useful.  Otherwise, the participants need to be careful about cues/negotiation for this.  Unless one person does almost always does all the typing.
> 
> 
> Mitchell Wand wrote at 02/18/2010 07:26 AM:
>> Has anybody thought about using DrScheme as a shared whiteboard for remote pair programming?
>> 
>> Can anybody suggest tools for approximating this?  VNC comes to mind, of course, but are there others?
>> 
>> --Mitch
>> 
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