Re: [OS:N:] Classes (was: Open office community classes)
Todd Warner <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Kevin Cole wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:32:32AM -0400, Todd Warner wrote:
>
> > I agree. Mozilla/Mozilla-Mail should be in there. With that, everything
> > you have shown is x-platform which is would be a neat teaching moment.
>
> I previously made recommendations for MySQL and Python and/or Perl
> based on the same idea: cross-platform. So that seems to be the theme
> for most of the replies.
>
> I figure by now, most of the folks taking a class like this aren't
> going to be too challenged by a web browser or e-mail program. Then
> again, if you get into all the fancy extensions you can add to
> Mozilla/Firebird/Thunderbird, it could be a lot of fun.
Yeah, people won't be challenged by a web-browser, but then again, so
many people don't know that you can try something different with minimal
pain. And if you show them them tabbed browsing... they just may be
sold. (This is given that MS's browser doesn't have it yet... I have
no idea).
Just a thought.
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