It was pleasing to see the recent news article on the long ovedue shift in the teaching of 'computing'. The proposed move away from showing how to use Word, Excel etc., in favour of learning about programming and open source.

Deja Vu, methinks: my 1st glimpse of computing was in a physics class that showed a wire-frame lunar lander. One plugged in values for thrust, gravity etc. in order to land on a specific spot. This moved on to programming a sequence of flashing LEDs, somewhere along the line and through teaming up with a schoolmate, we devised self changing code, for improved coding efficiency.

Now look where it's got me.... 😞

Do we really want to allow our L.G. Councils to fill the coffers of large corporations, by the insistence of not using open source software? (Notwitstanding the discounted rates given to L.G.) A few have seen the light but in these days of 'austerity' isn't it about time open source adoption became more widespread? The principal argument appears to be, that it would require too much retraining of staff. Yeah, right.. LibreOffice is just so far removed from any other office suite.

Now, back to the true substance of this thread...

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