(pump-primer) a scenario, a focus, a beginning sentence, a what-if, to stimulate or structure student effort Prompts can serve as models as students begin developing their own topics Some prompts are extensive, and include information on the purpose of and audience for the student's response Can be over-used, resulting in chronic student expectation of teacher directives instead of employment of intrinsic motivation and inspiration
A prompt is text printed to ask the user for input Printing a prompt is called prompting Emacs prompts always appear in the echo area (q v ) One kind of prompting happens when the minibuffer is used to read an argument (see section The Minibuffer); the echoing which happens when you pause in the middle of typing a multicharacter key sequence is also a kind of prompting (see section The Echo Area)
Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; meeting requirements readily; not slow, dilatory, or hesitating in decision or action; responding on the instant; immediate; as, prompt in obedience or compliance; said of persons
A prompt is text printed to ask the user for input Displaying a prompt is called prompting Emacs prompts always appear in the echo area (q v ) One kind of prompting happens when the minibuffer is used to read an argument (see Minibuffer); the echoing which happens when you pause in the middle of typing a multi-character key sequence is also a kind of prompting (see Echo Area)
A character or string of characters used by a host to identify user needed inforamtion at the entry point of text inputs
{f} motivate, inspire; induce, impel; drive, spur; stimulate, excite; provide a cue for an actor's forgotten lines
If you prompt someone when they stop speaking, you encourage or help them to continue. If you prompt an actor, you tell them what their next line is when they have forgotten what comes next. `Go on,' the therapist prompted him How exactly did he prompt her, Mr Markham?