At junior high school
Eric Pierce
High School Student
Runtime Revolution is an ideal solution for many different branches of the business and corporate world that require fast, easy and powerful software development and customization. Because of it’s ease of use, it is also an invaluable tool for the home user.
Eric Pierce is a Junior in high school who uses Rev to develop software for schoolwork as well as for his extracurricular activities. “I am a swimmer, so I need to keep track of my constantly changing times. Rev was able to let me create my own system for doing just that, and it took almost no time at all.” SwimTrack is a program Eric wrote that allows him to track his times and to compare them directly to personal goals, or to a cut he is striving to make. He uses a combination of manual entry and automatic time downloads updated directly from the IHSA website.
“I have written programs in C++, Java, Visual Basic, Direct X, and DarkBasic, but Rev is by far the easiest and fastest to use. I could have written SwimTrack in Java or Visual Basic, but it would have taken at least ten times as long, and the code that I would have to write would have been enormous compared to what I had to do with Rev,” Eric says. “It is really amazing that a program that requires so little effort from the user could be so powerful. Rev is the program I have been waiting for!”
SwimTrack is used by Eric, as well as some of the other swimmers on the team. “I really wrote SwimTrack for myself, but it soon became popular among the team. Next in development is “TeamTrack” for a swim coach to catalogue the progress of an entire team.”
One of the greater aspects of Rev is its cross-platform support. “I program under Linux, but the computers at school run Windows,” Eric explains. “Many of the programs I write are customized for specific labs or problems in Chemistry AP or Physics AP classes. With Rev, I am able to write the programs at home, and then bring them to school for the labs.”
“I plan to move into much more advanced programs with Rev. My next projects will be a network chat program, and an advanced physics equation solver, with an aesthetically pleasing look. I really have just begun to brush the surface of Rev’s potential.”