12 Jan
1999
12 Jan
'99
1:12 p.m.
Apparently you have not tried Visual Basic...
How is that as easy as ROM BASIC? You turn the computer, and Visual Basic
pops up immediately? I've yet to see such a computer (and if I do, I'll
bash it to pieces with an axe, but that's another story)!.
At what level are you talking? I have not seen any
sofware for kids (like
the knowledge adventure or humongous entertainment series) that would run
on
Linux. It is hard to get a kid used to play with
windows for 6 years and
tell him that it is crap and the one where you have to type long commands
is
a lot better.
We're talking about teaching _about_ computers, not teaching _with_
computers. Granted, Alvin and the Chipmunks software won't run on Linux
(usually), and M$ Actimates won't work with it either...(echo "Hello,
World!" > /dev/barney, anyone?) but those things won't help someone who
wants to learn how a computer works.