While I was trawling through Net Applications' operating system share trend data for the past 24 months, something struck me. June 08 marked a big month for Linux. The OS saw the largest increase in market share for the whole 2 year period - a growth of 0.12%.
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Member since:2007-09-06
That's been my stance for a long time now. Teach how to do a skill not a brand of tool that performs that task. I can't remember what brand of hammer I first put a nail to wood with and I've never required that same brand of hammer to attach two pieces of wood since. If I by Brofasco nails, I don't required a Brofasco branded hammer to use them.
Schools are a very traditional and backward thinking institution though. Teachers may start with all the passion and enthusiasm imaginable but eventually, they are just trying to get through the school year and make it to retirnment. Just regurgitate the lesson plans from last year and mark the papers.
Bah.. teach a kid to use a computer rather than teaching them how to use a brand of software application.
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2005-07-06
what really should be educated, is understanding how to do something is a ui neutral way.
most complaints these days are not about how a replacement app miss some feature or other, but that the ui is different from what apps the user have been using to perform some task until now.
it seems a lot of people would love to use gimp as a photoshop replacement, if the gimp gui was more like photoshop for windows.