call for spec suggestions

[nigel barker]

I appreciate these answers, but this is far away from my needs. I am not 
teaching CS to high school students. I teach mostly primary and middle 
school classes, and we use the computer to do tasks which are useful in 
the mainstream classes. According to UK and International Baccalaureate 
curriculum documents young kids are supposed to be able to use 
databases. Obviously this would be a GUI app, maybe even simpler than 
Access. I don't know what windows schools use, but it would seem there 
must be something, otherwise these curriculum writers wouldn't have got 
these ideas.

A spreadsheet could probably be used instead for many examples, but 
trying to use Calc to merge into Writer doesn't work either - you have 
to open a dummy Base. The OOo database experience is not simple on any 
level.

Anyway, my request is for a simple gui database app, if it exists!

nigel



Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> On 4/14/08, Uwe Geercken <uwe.geercken at datamelt.com> wrote:
>   
>>  I would recommend to anyone, who wants to learn a database, to start
>>  on the console. same as for learning html, jave, etc. you can always
>>  switch to a GUI at a later point of time in the process but at the
>>  start it is important to learn the bascis and not have a tool do the
>>  work.
>>     
>
>
> I agree.
>
>   
>>  mysql is very good for that from my experience.
>>
>>     
>
> sqlite is also perfect for this task. The database is just a file and
> there is no setup. Permissions are simply set by file permissions.
>
>