On 2003-10-04 14:22:03 +0100 "Grainge, Derek"
What we're crying out for is a nice front end for querying editing and displaying data - assuming of course it also contains tools which simplify the creation of the database itself. And as soon as you create a fancy front end, you have to store it - in a proprietary way of course :-)
Indeed. I was quite impressed with the quick demonstration of knoda(?) that Garry gave me when I visited him earlier this year, but I've not had time to investigate it further since. I'd love to hear comments from people who have evaluated it for teaching use. I've used pg_access in the past, but that is rather limited and would need quite some work to bring it up to scratch. It does have the benefit of being in TCL, which makes it a bit more cross-platform than knoda, though. Beyond that, you seem to get into full-blown visual programming environments at the moment, which is further than most schools need to go. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ slef@jabber.at Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/