On Thursday 26 January 2006 01:20, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 00:56 schrieb Mark Nowiasz: > > Am Mittwoch, den 25.01.2006, 23:49 +0000 schrieb Benjamin Green: > > > I got posting via the LTSP discussion list about Scribus, there where > > > some > > > > > > comments listed. The last one intrigued me: > > > > 3. The tutorial was inappropriate for primary school. The example > > > > graphics were photos of sexual stone carvings (like kama sutra)! > > > > Otherwise didn't hear to many complaints. > > > > > > What tutorial is this and is there one with less sex? > > > > Don't know but I myself find the notion of teaching a DTP program in > > *primary school* much more strange than any sexual associations of stone > > carvings :-) > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > Exactly my thoughts. Kids in primary school have to learn writing and math > basics, and they almost certainly don't know enough arithmetics to use a > DTP app succesfully. People normally get accustomed to this kind of > software after finishing school, either in their training for the job or > during their studies. And that's early enough, IMHO. > > Seems to me like much ado about nothing.
Don't believe that for a minute.. in many schools where I am from (Sydney), many primary schools, mostly private ones, all kids will have a laptop as required by the school. Now, if I was coding when I was 8, which I was, do you really think I wouldn't know how to play around in a DTP app? Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060126/3e2b21b7/attachment.pgp
