__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Tuesday 25 July 2006 10:10 \__
> I forwarded this to Ed Montogomery, the Toronto school teacher whose
> Linux lab was shut down.
Good idea! Thanks for that. It will serve him if he needs to make a case
while fronting a panel of skeptics. Add to this the fact that he taught
computing while here we speak of general-purpose learning at high-school
level.
> Interesting quote:
>
> "Time needed for a Windows-using high school student to acclimate him
> or herself to the Linux desktop: 10 minutes."
I was introduced the Linux for the first time back in the year 2000. We were
given an extensive exercise as part of the "Introduction to Linux Lab". I
finished everything very quickly, but my prior knowledge with DOS
command-line must have helped. Notice the fact that the command-line was not
necessary at the time; neither is it necessary nowadays. But they wanted us
to have a command-line slant (e.g. mv, mkdir, cat) before we embark on
functional programming such as ML. I never found the GUI tricky to master.
In fact, editors that were just there (primary one was nedit) provided me
with functionality that I very much appreciated and had never seen before.
Best wishes,
Roy
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