[Scribus] Tutorial reference

[Craig Bradney]

On Thursday 26 January 2006 01:20, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2006 00:56 schrieb Mark Nowiasz:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 25.01.2006, 23:49 +0000 schrieb Benjamin Green:
> > > I got posting via the LTSP discussion list about Scribus, there where
> > > some
> > >
> > > comments listed. The last one intrigued me:
> > > > 3. The tutorial was inappropriate for primary school. The example
> > > > graphics were photos of sexual stone carvings (like kama sutra)!
> > > > Otherwise didn't hear to many complaints.
> > >
> > > What tutorial is this and is there one with less sex?
> >
> > Don't know but I myself find the notion of teaching a DTP program in
> > *primary school* much more strange than any sexual associations of stone
> > carvings :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
>
> Exactly my thoughts. Kids in primary school have to learn writing and math
> basics, and they almost certainly don't know enough arithmetics to use a
> DTP app succesfully. People normally get accustomed to this kind of
> software after finishing school, either in their training for the job or
> during their studies. And that's early enough, IMHO.
>
> Seems to me like much ado about nothing.

Don't believe that for a minute.. in many schools where I am from (Sydney), 
many primary schools, mostly private ones, all kids will have a laptop as 
required by the school.

Now, if I was coding when I was 8, which I was, do you really think I wouldn't 
know how to play around in a DTP app? 

Craig
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