On 2/12/07, Daniel C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My sister asked me to teach her to make web pages, but I'm not sure I can make it simple enough that she'll be able to get into it without a lot of overhead. I mean, if she's got to learn vi so she can edit files on my server, or if she's going to have to mess around with an ftp client, that might be enough of a pain to kill the desire to fiddle around with cool stuff to show off to her friends.
I had the same experience with my wife. Only I was foolish enough to try and teach her to use vi to begin with. It worked much better when I handed her my HTML reference and let her use notepad. On the flipside, now that she uses a Mac, things aren't quite so foreign because she knows what the terminal is. So I think the main problem is that today's major operating system choices (and this includes OSX and even some Linux distros) keep the user too far away from the guts of the system and hide what the system actually is behind transparency, wobbly windows, etc. I find it a triumph, howbeit a small, incremental one, that my wife know nows that there is an interface (the terminal) that allows access to all of the tools that comprise the OS. -- Alex Esplin /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
