[NTLUG:Discuss] Corel donates Linux to DISD

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Kathleen Weaver wrote:
> 
> Well, not as good as I like.  The education level for technology is very
> low, and unfortuantely they have swallowed the Mac/Microsoft bate, hook,
> line and sinker.
> 
> Next year will be better.  For one, I am no longer teaching an extra class.
>  For two, I am no longer teaching webmastering and my talents are being put
> to correct use, I will be teaching only programming, C++ and Visual Basic.

??Visual Basic??
I thought you were teaching programming Kathleen? 
:)
just kidding

> By the way, for once Microsoft did something right.  I actually like Visual
> Basic for the Computer Science I class.  They get instant results, they are
> able to do some pretty sophisicated stuff and they enjoy it.  They did give
> it to us, though of course, with the WIndows 95 operating system as a catch
> -- we had to pay for that.

no comment ;)
> 
> And the reason it's taken awhile for an answer, is that things are rough
> around here at the house, I lost a 12 year old companion.  Yeah, she was a
> dog, but she'd been with me since she was 6 weeks old.  And I was more than
> a little attached to her.
> 

all my sympathies
:( sniff sniff
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