[geeks] New Tech Schools: Digital Harbor in Baltimore

[jvdg at sparcpark.net]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>> I don't know that it's EVER been about "broad concepts".  Today it's
>> Word and Excel and PowerPoint.  15 years ago it was Wordperfect, Lotus
>> 1-2-3, and DBase.
>
> When I took a course like that (1994 or so), we had to learn Microsoft
> Works, then 1-2-3 and WP 5.1, then Word and Excel.  Catching the
> concepts was important; knowing what button to push was minutiae.

Consider yourself lucky. My a-hole teacher even had the audacity to make
"what function key enables bold type" an exam question. I was *so* tempted
to answer, "depends on the program", but I wanted to just pass and be rid
of that stupid class.

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