Update project-ideas.md

pgbovine · mmmicedcoffee · commit fa0418b0bfc0 · 2014-01-31T13:15:19.000-05:00
diff --git a/v3/docs/project-ideas.md b/v3/docs/project-ideas.md
@@ -121,26 +121,18 @@ There are (at least) two main ways to implement this feature:
 Right now OPT displays one state at a time. For simple algorithms, students often find it helpful
 to have the entire state displayed in a table, and will manually insert in `print` statements like so:
 
-<pre>
-i = 0
-numbers = []
+    i = 0
+    numbers = []
+    while i < 6:
+      print 'At the top i is %d' % i
+      numbers.append(i)
+      i = i + 1
+      print 'Numbers now: ', numbers
+      print 'At the bottom i is %d' % i
 
-while i < 6:
-  print 'At the top i is %d' % i
-  numbers.append(i)
 
-  i = i + 1
-  print 'Numbers now: ', numbers
-  print 'At the bottom i is %d' % i
-
-print 'The numbers: '
-
-for num in numbers:
-  print num
-</pre>
-
-Question: Can we augment OPT to provide this sort of "cumulative tabular view"?
-All of the data is right there in the trace; it's just a matter of visualizing it properly.
+Question: Can we augment OPT to automatically display this sort of "cumulative tabular view"?
+All of the data is right there in the trace; it's just a matter of visualizing it sensibly.
 
 For instance (this output is faked, so it's not accurate):
 
@@ -152,12 +144,15 @@ For instance (this output is faked, so it's not accurate):
        3       [0, 1, 2, 3]          i  = i + 1
        4       [0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
 
+In this case, the execution step slider under the code now highlights rows in the table as the
+user scrubs through the slider; cool!
+
 The obvious challenge here is scalabiilty, and what happens when there are multiple frames.
 
 Some ideas include:
-- having the user manually document (in, say, a docstring) which variables to print to the table
+- having the user manually annotate (in, say, a docstring) which variables to print in the table
 - only printing the table for one frame at a time
-- or maybe nesting frames
+- or maybe displaying nesting frames
 
 
 ### Custom rendering API and plugin system
