call for spec suggestions

[Charles Austin]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:55 AM, nigel barker <tech at hiroshima-is.ac.jp> wrote:
> 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.
>

I wholeheartedly agree.  Teaching the very basics of database is far
easier with a GUI - especially when it comes to concepts like primary
keys and joins.  I deal with lower and middle school students as well
- CLI databases is not a good way to introduce the concepts.

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>  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.
>  >>