MOOniversity Table of Contents

Preface

• Why we wrote this book
• The High Wired enCore
• How MOOniversity unfolds
• Symbols in the text

Chapter 1: MOOs in Context

• Background and history
• Educational MOOs
• Communities on the Internet
• Identity
• Class Discussion
• Exercises

Chapter 2: Fly Me to the MOO

• MOO clients
• Web-based MOO Access Systems
• Non-interactive MOO Browsing
• IP numbers and domain names
• Network ports
• Connecting with enCore Xpress
• Connecting using the BioGate system
• Welcome to the MOO
• Exercises

Chapter 3: The Newbie School: Learning the Bare Basics

• Help, I’m lost!
• Despair not, help is Nearby
• The enCore Xpress Graphical MOO Interface
• Exploring the MOOscape
• Getting around
• Who is online
• Communicating with other people
• Talking and Paging
• Emote and remote-emote
• Managing and troubleshooting the interface
• Output Control and Delimiter
• Page Buffering
• Line Length
• Local Echo
• MOO netiquette and manners
• Class Discussion
• Exercises

Chapter 4: Becoming a MOO Citizen

• Creating your MOO persona
• Your description
• Gender
• Changing your password
• Other things you can customize
• Inhabitants of the MOO world
• Players
• Builders
• Programmers
• Wizards
• MOOmail
• Composing and sending MOOmail
• Receiving and reading MOOmail
• Managing your MOOmail
• The enCore Xpress MOO mailer
• MOO mailing lists
• Subscribing and Unsubscribing from Mailing Lists
• Post to a Mailing List
• Reading Posts on Mailing Lists
• Managing Mail Lists the Xpress Way
• The MOO newspaper
• IRC-style chat channels
• Features, What they are and how to use them
• The social verbs feature
• The login watcher
• The pasting feature
• Privacy and safety
• Class Discussion
• Exercises

Chapter 5: The MOO Editors and How to Use Them

• Text input
• The say command
• The enter function
• The list command
• The insert command
• The substitute command
• The move and copy commands
• The Mail Editor
• The Text Editor
• The Verb Editor
• Offline editing strategies
• Exercises

Chapter 6: Digging in the MUD: How to Create Rooms and Other Objects

• How to become a builder
• The dynamics of MOO Creation
• Generic classes and objects
• The basic building tools, @dig and @create
• Creating your own MOOspace
• Exits
• Connecting your rooms to the rest of the MOO
• Exit messages
• Creating aliases for rooms and exits
• Creating other objects
• The enCore Xpress Object Editor
• How to lock your objects
• Keeping track of your stuff
• Monitoring your resource usage
• Keep your MOO tidy
• Maps and other ASCII art
• Adding Multi-media Content to your Objects
• Class Discussion
• Exercises
• Refererences

Chapter 7: Object-Oriented Programming in the MOO

• Becoming a Programmer
• Object-Oriented Concepts
• The Anatomy of the Object
• Object-Oriented Design
• Creating a Test Object
• Defining Verbs
• Defining Properties
• The Building Blocks of the MOO Language
• Expressions
• Statements
• The If-Statement
• The For-Statement
• The While-Statement
• Operators
• Writing Your First Verb
• Programming Verbs
• Assigning Values to Properties
• Getting Braver: A More Complex Example
• Programming With the enCore Xpress Verb Editor
• From the Programmers’s Toolbox
• Fixing Bugs in Programs
• Sharing Your Generic Objects
• Become a Hacker
• Checklist for MOO Programmers
• References and Further Readings
• Class Discussion
• Exersices

Chapter 8: MOO Classes, Research, and Publication

• Virtual classrooms
• Multi-tasking
• Multi-conversing: class and group discussions
• Individual learning
• Publish web pages in the MOO
• Presentational tools and special events
• Class Discussion
• Exercises

Chapter 9: Collaboration on the MOO

• What is collaboration in MOOspace
• Why collaborate using MOOs
• How to collaborate on MOOs
• Special case: language learning and ESL/FL
• Class Discussion
• Exercises

Appendix A: Quick Reference for MOO Commands

Appendix B: Glossary of MOO Jargon and Acronyms

Appendix C: List of Some Educational MOOs