I worked with many people who had accounting backgrounds and good arithmetic skills but little statistical or computer skills. I have also worked with many people with social science backgrounds. For many reasons I have found that the best approach is to use the pull down menus but to exit the menu via <paste> rather than <ok> and then either highlighting the syntax or going back to the menu and exiting via <ok>. This helps the students learn what underlies the menus, teaches them good habits for quality review, teaches them that analysis and package use is an evolutionary and iterative processes, helps them learn how to get support when they inevitably get stuck, etc.
Jay Warner wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with a strictly 'pull down menu' approach? . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
