SEUL.org: Linux in Education Report #73

[ Thanks to Doug Loss
for this link. ]

“June 24, 2002–Two Yorktown, Virginia High School students,
Mike Alderman and Scott Burger, have written an article for Open
Source Schools about “a project creating a new implementation of
Karel the Robot, a programming language that will be used to help
introduce students to computer science next year.”

“Dana Bently with KW Access Ability asked us for help:

“My name is Dana Bentley and I work at a charity in Waterloo,
Ontario, which refurbishes computers for people with physical
disabilities who could not otherwise afford a computer. We are
interested in installing Linux on some of the machines that we give
to our members, as well as doing some teaching on a Linux machine
at our office. I am wondering if you have any suggestions for a
largely Windows based staff to implement and support Linux for a
member base that is largely still on the learning curve for
computers. I do not know if we can assist you in any way with your
program as we are not a school per se, but we would be willing to
help if possible. We are using donated computers, mostly 386 and
486, and are looking at Linux primarily to avoid the difficulties
of Microsoft licensing…”

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