Sorry, I sent my previous post to the wrong thread. A-level students are no longer using Pascal. (At least, A level Computing Students), thus I don't think there is the need to bundle GnuPascal. Not to mention that it wouldn't have been compatible anyway. I tried both GnuPascal and FreePascal and ended up using Turbo Pascal under Dosbox to make programs using Graph Mode.
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 15:58 +0200, Philip Serracino Inglott wrote: > Seb, Since you seem to be the lead on this project and you are an Uni > IT student, I think I will trust your judgement. > I think we should also try to target MCAST and A-Level students at > least by not excluding them. i.e. the disc should not be UoM specific > (after all it would be good PR if foreign students use it too) and if > we can squeeze in something like GnuPascal (does it still exist?) for > A-Level students, we should go for it. > Besides good text editors, putty, etc. are useful to all IT students. > > Philip > > 2008/6/22 Sebastian Cachia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If we are going with TITS what about TITS-Disk? We might lose them with ORB. > > In any case a catchy name is a must! Anybody curious how the female students > > would react to the name TITS? > > > > I suppose we are relying on the fact that this project makes student's lives > > easier. Some students will be interested from the start, but others will > > initially only show interest because the open software is immediately > > available, as opposed to the having to google and download whatever other > > software most lecturers will inevitably suggest. > > > > A few goodies should be thrown in. Putty should be included in any case as > > we have sometimes needed to SSH onto one of uni's machines. Some engineering > > software could be thrown in too. > > > > Apart from some self explanatory html pages explaining the software on the > > disk itself, it would be a good idea to dedicate part of the /discover or > > whatever part of the website to explaining the programs included and link to > > their homepages. > > > > A cd for MCAST would be a lot harder as from what I gather, they tend to be > > much more tied down to specific products. > > > > Anybody think targeting A Level students would be a good idea? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MLUG-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
