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Re: [PLUG] Community Service Project (Devil's
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What does it matter. With Windows, you think they're going to understand
the registry or DOS or the script debugger?
--- kmhryhpdblyx@spammotel.com wrote:
> advocate)
>
> I can't believe you guys are debating giving C or Perl to low-income
> elementary school students. These are kids who are probably not even
> reading at their proper grade level. I bet that a good bunch of these
> kids
> won't even be able to read the man pages for some of these packages, let
>
> alone put them to use.
>
> IMHO, they need simple software that helps them learn and doesn't get in
>
> their way. A web browser, a simple word processor, chat client, simple
> email, educational games. Some good examples have already been
> mentioned. There might be more at the K12-Linux project home page.
>
> I don't think it's kind to give a poor person something that will either
>
> cost them money to maintain (license upgrades) or provoke them into
> breaking the law (SW pirate). Free software seems to be the most-moral
> way
> to go in this type of endeavor. Second graders shouldn't be worrying
> about the job prospects of one OS or another. They need to learn how to
>
> read, type, surf, search, and to use the computer (any computer) as a
> tool.
>
>
> At 10:31 AM 7/11/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >Most of the kids will say they want games, and cool chat software. Some
> >may want programming stuff, if they're incipient geeks. The parents
> will
> >want more than that for the kids.
> >
> >That's been my experience with the younger (< 12 or so) crowd, anyway.
> >
> > > Linux:
> > > Pre-installed with:
> > > - web browser (value $0)
> > > - full office suite(s) (value $300?)
> > > - programming languages (value $500?)
> >
> >Well, there is a free version of C for Windows, I believe. Ditto for
> perl,
> >python, etc.
> >
> > > - web page editor(s) (value $79.95?)
> >
> >Front Page Express on Windows is a web editor, and is free. And web
> pages
> >can be edited using open Office these days, I believe.
> >
> > > - image/graphics software (Gimp) (value $200?)
> >
> >Gimp is available for Windows, and is free.
>
> --
> Jim Foster - jif "at" computer .org
> http://www.voicenet.com/~jfoster
> "Being on a Beemer and not having a wave returned by a ICQ
> 679709
> Sportster is like having a clipper ship's hailing not RAM 2500
> Cummins
> returned by an orphaned New Jersey solid waste barge." -OTL '03
> GL1800A
>
>
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