Just thought I'd throw this one into the "teaching programming debate" - cost effectiveness... Cheers Chris P.S. Last time I programmed was during MechEng and in Turbo Pascal, and I was much more interested im making my programs work than making them look good. But then our stuff was going to be assessed by programmers. -----Original Message----- From: David Bucknell To: schoolforge-discuss@schoolforge.net Sent: 2/2/02 7:29 AM Subject: [school-discuss] Helping Newbies Find Open Source Programming Tools Programmer Dale Gulledge has followed-up his article on where to find tutorials on open source programming languages (C, perl, php, etc) with a new article on "Free Programming Tools Tutorials" -- that is, once you have an idea and you know what open source language you want to use, what open source tools will you use and where can you find them? That's the subject of his article this month at http://opensourceschools.org/article.php?story=20020131234519608 on Open Source Schools. Dale's helping us to build up a set of articles answering questions for open source newcomers. Please have a read, comment and recommend his work to others. Best wishes, David Bucknell Open Source Schools; International Education Daily Editor Seth Ruef has gone from Tech Planning Guru to enthusiastic Computer Video Producer. Recapture your enthusiasm, too, by following his advice: http://members.iteachnet.org/webzine/article.php?story=2002013120153764