I realised that this package may help in the presentation and organisation of material for the lectures in this course. One major factor in my decision to go ahead was the lecture room facilities which I knew were available. The class had about 150 students and always took place in the Physics large lecture theatre which has good projection facilities and, importantly, an attached prep room with a skilled technician to deal with hardware problems and to set the machines up for the beginning of the lecture. Always have an alternative plan if a piece of equipment fails. The pages can be subdivided into frames and each frame can be linked to other pages in the database in a completely free way.
Genesis comes essentially as two programs.
The browser can be copied to allow third parties to use an application one has constructed. The editor works in a windows environment so that construction of pages is in principle very straightforward and one can see immediately the results of one's labours. It is impossible to give an adequate description of it here. Some example applications which are provided with the program are an address book, a chemistry database, composers and their music, the planets, geography, recipes etc. It should be pointed out that these are only examples and not comprehensive packages of information.