Submitted by Smart Computer User on April 9, 2006 - 2:49pm.
I took "classes" from my son and son-in-law. In my case, they were the best teachers! They helped me overcome the fear of using a computer. Not sure that a formal classroom would have helped me with that one obstacle in learning how to use this wonderful educational and productive tool. Now I am ready to learn more and plan to take classes.
Submitted by Smart Computer User on April 8, 2006 - 10:19am.
I took classes in high school and college. I learned PeachText, DBase 3, and some other old stuff with accounting related options. That was from 1986-1991. This stuff is pretty old now.
Submitted by Smart Computer User on April 7, 2006 - 6:20pm.
A bit of history -- my first computer class was in 1956 at IBM's Endicott, NY facility. It was a technician-level course for Customer Engineers on the IBM 650, a tube-based computer with magnetic drum storage. Logic was via diodes with the tubes used to amplify the signals.
Most trouble-shooting was done with the room lights off to find the tube without a glowing filiment. Our biggest concern was called an "Oops!" That was slipping a scope probe while probing a diode circuit, resulting in numerious blown diodes. Needless to say, my ohmmeter was a very important tool.
Submitted by Smart Computer User on April 7, 2006 - 6:09am.
Perhaps the better question is: Did you learn anything in your computer class that you could use at home/work on a daily basis? I have taken many classes (i.e. MSOffice and all its components, Lotus 123, specialized programs for work sites) and most are filled with fancy keystrokes and applications that have no real use to a common user.
Submitted by Smart Computer User on April 7, 2006 - 7:46am.
Having attended classes on Excel, Microsoft Word, and Word Perfect, I know that I have to actually put the knowlwdge to use in order to attain some level of proficiency. My Excel class was 10 hours of instruction over a four-day period. At the conclusion of the class I put the work book on a shelf above my computer and didn't look at it again for several months. When I finally got around to making a spread sheet I couldn't remember one thing that I learned in the Excel Classes. I had to dig back into the work book and learn it all over again. The rule "Use it or lose it" applies to all formal instruction.
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Does listening to your show and reading your newletter count?
kids as teachers
I took "classes" from my son and son-in-law. In my case, they were the best teachers! They helped me overcome the fear of using a computer. Not sure that a formal classroom would have helped me with that one obstacle in learning how to use this wonderful educational and productive tool. Now I am ready to learn more and plan to take classes.
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I took classes in high school and college. I learned PeachText, DBase 3, and some other old stuff with accounting related options. That was from 1986-1991. This stuff is pretty old now.
Computer classes
The best (AKA most useful) computer classes I have ever taken are the ones taught by the Castillini/Cochran team. Keep up the good work, guys!
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A bit of history -- my first computer class was in 1956 at IBM's Endicott, NY facility. It was a technician-level course for Customer Engineers on the IBM 650, a tube-based computer with magnetic drum storage. Logic was via diodes with the tubes used to amplify the signals.
Most trouble-shooting was done with the room lights off to find the tube without a glowing filiment. Our biggest concern was called an "Oops!" That was slipping a scope probe while probing a diode circuit, resulting in numerious blown diodes. Needless to say, my ohmmeter was a very important tool.
Dale Ellis
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I go to the CASTELLINI on air school
Computer classes
Perhaps the better question is: Did you learn anything in your computer class that you could use at home/work on a daily basis? I have taken many classes (i.e. MSOffice and all its components, Lotus 123, specialized programs for work sites) and most are filled with fancy keystrokes and applications that have no real use to a common user.
Computer Classes
Having attended classes on Excel, Microsoft Word, and Word Perfect, I know that I have to actually put the knowlwdge to use in order to attain some level of proficiency. My Excel class was 10 hours of instruction over a four-day period. At the conclusion of the class I put the work book on a shelf above my computer and didn't look at it again for several months. When I finally got around to making a spread sheet I couldn't remember one thing that I learned in the Excel Classes. I had to dig back into the work book and learn it all over again. The rule "Use it or lose it" applies to all formal instruction.
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