CB> Quotes are taken from a message written by Bob to Charles on 07/31/96...
BA>CB> Cut-and-paste and integrating data from the database into a word
BA>CB> processing document seems like a good start for the younger students.
Yawn.. (before you react, read on....)
BA>Including the results of either into the word processor seems
BA>indicated to me. But perhaps they ought to be exposed to the data
BA>base first. Can you tell me more about how you do it there?
 CB> If I were teaching, I would try to make things as project oriented as 
 CB> possible - perhaps publish a school newspaper, do a poll on the 
 CB> Presidential election (school cafeteria food is another popular option), 
 CB> etc.  I wish I could be in the lab, but they needed someone to pick up 
 CB> two extra math classes and I was given the assignment.
There is the ticket, guy.   Get out of the realm that use-of-the-computer is 
boring.  Yes, there are a lot of good and entertaining pre-designed packages 
but the student is going to quickly use it up. We are going to remain in that 
buy-more feeding frenzie in which the industry wants to keep us. 
You buy a kid a new toy, they play with it for a while but get far more 
entertainment playing with the box in which it was shipped.  
Programming is such a box. It exersizes the imagination. Students can be 
creating programs for you to use in other classes.  Creating tools, 
Invention, working on projects that canned programs cannot offer.
Programming, like writing, goes far beyond learning how to hold a pencil.
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