Re: Sort of OT : advice sought to 'teach' Windows basics to technophobe


Paul E. Schoen wrote:
"J.A. Legris" <jalegris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Tim Wescott wrote:
Tell him to buy a Mac. He's the sort of person they're there for.


Absolutely! My wife considers herself to be a "computer retard"
(actually, I think she's a from another universe where everything is
not what you would expect). She's never been able to learn Windows.
Then I got a Mac and she taught herself! Now I'm a computer retard too.
Feels great!


I remember the first time I used a MAC, when taking a course in Structured
Programming (Pascal) at the local college, in 1987. I was already adept at
MSDOS and even CP/M. But it took me a while to adjust to the graphics
windows format. What I had the hardest time with was clicking and dragging
an icon into the trash can just to remove the icon from the desktop and
close it. To me, it looked like I was deleting it. I hope they have changed
that to something more intuitive. I don't think I used the computer lab
more than a couple of times. I got a copy of Turbo Pascal for my 8086
Leading Edge and did all my homework at home. Later I switched to Turbo C,
but now I'm back to Pascal with Borland Delphi.

Paul

If you drag an icon to the trash, that means you probably don't want it
back. There's one exception: you can still drag a CD or DVD into the
trash to eject it from the drive.

But the thing I like about the Mac is that somewhere in the world
there's someone who actually knows how it works. Feels like old times.

I'm learning how to program the thing using the FREE development system
that comes with it. Objective-C. I had given up hope of ever enjoying a
computer again until I took the Mac plunge. I just bought my second
machine over Christmas - a MacBook. Very nice. The only problem so far
is that the beautiful white housing scratches easily. Comes with a
remote control too :)

--
Joe Legris

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