ASSIGMENT 2

TO : LECTERUR EN ZULKIFFLI

PROGRAMMING AND AUTHORING TOOL

PRESENTED BY : HEMALADEVI SANASEE Ic number : 900915-08-5414 3/12/2013

MULTIMEDIA DEPARTMENT BAMA502 Multimedia Technology Project 2 .............................................. .............. Date of Brief: 26/02/2013 AUTHORING TOOLS AND PROGRAMMING TOOLS AUTHORING tools and PROGRAMMING tools are essential tools in creating multimedia applications. In 3 pages minimum, explain what are AUTHORING and PROGRAMMING and then discuss the similarities and differences of AUTHORING tools and PROGRAMMING tools and list down examples within those two groups. The Creative Task: This written assignment will lead you to exploring the idea of getting to know the tools for creating multimedia application and why these tools are divided into two groups. * This project contributes 15% marks of the overall project for BAMA502 course this semester. Submission date: 12th March 2013

PROGRAMMING TOOLS
Programming tools meant that a program used for software development or system maintenance. Virtually any program or utility that helps programmers or users develop applications or maintain their computers can be called a tool. Examples of programming tools are compilers, interpreters, assemblers, 4GLs, editors, debuggers and application generators. It is also a program that helps the user analyze or search for data. For example, query and report programs are often called query tools and report tools.

AUTHORING TOOL
Authoring tool is also known as Authorware, a program that helps you write hypertext or multimedia applications. Authoring tools usually enable you to create a final application merely by linking together objects, such as a paragraph of text, an illustration, or a song. By defining the objects' relationships to each other, and by sequencing them in an appropriate order, authors (those who use authoring tools) can produce attractive and useful graphics applications. Most authoring systems also support a scripting language for more sophisticated applications.

SIMILARITIES OF AUTHORING AND PROGRAMMING TOOLS

- Both authoring and programming tools which is used to develop a programme or an application. - Both tools allows non-programmer to easily create software with programming features. - The both tools features are built in but hidden behind buttons and other tools so the author does not need to know how to program.

DIFFERENCES OF AUTHORING AND PROGRAMMING TOOLS

The distinction between authoring tools and programming tools is not clear-cut but

authoring tools consist a lot of attractive and useful graphic application and also authoring tools require less technical knowledge to master and are used exclusively for applications that present a mixture of textual, graphical, and audio data. Whereas for programming tools, is more to programming software or tools which do not consist that much of attractive graphic application. Programming tools is more towards the basic system to develop an application. Programming tools is also known as loaders, linkers and program controller.

Examples of authoring tools

1. Card based: cards are developed that have different elements associated with them. Cards are put in stack.
eg: HYPERCARD(Mac)&TOOLBOOK(Mac/Windows)

2. Icon based: icons are gathered along the line and it provide visual development. eg : Authorware(Mac/windows) & IconAuthor (Windows)

3. Time based: the most popular is by using "timeline" for organizing activities and also using "framing" to adjust the frame size. eg: flash/ Macromedia Director

4. Object based: support environment based on object and every object is modified using properties & 'modifiers. The environment is based on 'Hierarchy'. eg: mTropolis,Applemedia,Mediaforge

Examples of Programming tools

- OS: Windows XP SP2 - IDE: Visual Studios 2005 downloads of smaller pieces, such as C only part) - Compiler: WinARM - Jtag-Programmer: SAM-Prog - Debugger: JLINKGDBServer + arm-elf-insight