Purpose of this assignment

The purpose of this course is to introduce you to a variety of programming languages and programming language constructs. REBOL is interesting in a number of ways:

• REBOL has an extremely simple syntax
  • It has only three kinds of syntactic entities: values, words, and blocks
  • It is (almost) entirely prefix syntax
• REBOL has an astonishing variety of data types (URLs, email addresses, XML tags, etc.)
• REBOL is extremely dynamic; any word can be redefined
• For all REBOL's power, the interpreter for it is tiny
• REBOL/View is one of the easiest GUI systems that I know of (comparable to Ruby Shoes)

General idea of the assignment

Do something interesting. With a GUI.

By "interesting," I mean something of interest to you. It doesn't have to be interesting to me. It would be nice if your program looked like you had put a couple of hours effort into it.

There are lots of REBOL programs that you can use as examples. You should not, of course, simply copy one of the examples and make trivial changes to it.

Please include, with your program, a .txt file (not a .doc file) that tells us what your program does and how to use it. For most programs, a single paragraph will probably suffice, but feel free to write more. Zip this .txt file together with your .r file (producing a .zip file, not a .rar file) to submit it.

Due date

Your program is due before 6amFriday, November 9 . Zip up the .r and .txt files for this project, and submit via Blackboard.