On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Anselm Lingnau
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Martijn Brekhof wrote:
>
>> What is the difference between a "user", and a teenage school kid or
>> undergraduate student?
>
> School kids and undergraduates are a captive audience that can be tortured ;^)

lmao.  too funny.  When someone complained about the hazings during
'frosh week' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosh_week), I tried
explaining to him that the entire undergraduate experience is the
hazing.  After _that_, things get easier.


> School kids and undergraduates, however, are used to learning things that are
> character-building and do them good in the long run even if they can't see
> their point and hate them when they do need to learn them. This serves as an
> automatic excuse for shell commands, regular expressions, etc.

We can leave the framework but I think that we should leave some of
the more exquisite torture topics for the instructors to choose. :)

Regards,
-- 
G. Matthew Rice <[email protected]>                         gpg id: EF9AAD20
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