Wow... thanks to everyone for all the responses! Here's what I think I'm going to do. I'll create a couple of basic tutorials, and test 'em on my brother. Then I'll put them online on my site, so if anyone else wants to mould the mini-nerds in their lives, there's somewhere to start. I've taken all your ideas on board. Jochem, I see your point. But these kids are already doing some computing in school, and I think they are better off learning something they can build on in the future than how to use Word (it was Microsoft Works when I was in high school, but same deal). In my brother's case, creating his personal site - that was last weekend's project - also involved checking his spelling, grammar, and thinking out his message so it was clear and made sense. I'm emphasising quality control at every step. He's using DWMX (as he's using my computer), so we're looking at the html source a little too. He's interested in creating web sites, so I want to encourage him to try new, more challenging projects. Interesting anecdote: when he first took his school project html site and started editing it "for real", each page had a different horrific tiling background. My Dad and I tried not to say anything, not wanting to dampen his enthusiasm. But a week later he had removed all the hideous backgrounds and put a consistent colour scheme on each page. Kids really do learn by osmosis. I bought him a book called "html with css and xhtml" for Christmas - we'll get rid of those tables yet :) Macromedia have a very small presence in Australia. If anything, I think their educational focus should be getting CF into universities first, which is starting to happen. But for kids with an interest, who want to be ahead of their peers, I think CF is a great stepping stone. Kay. ---------------- http://kay.smoljak.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
