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  • Re: Decline Of Pc's

    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Rob Mccart on Tue Dec 30 07:54:48 2025
    Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

    I think some Private schools get around this but for most students
    you need to be working from the same playbook..

    Yes, and no. I suppose they get around independent curricula by being
    teaching more than the public school curriculum, but my daughter
    transferred private to private and lost a year of her math because the
    old school's class didn't line up to the new one.



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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to OGG on Tue Dec 30 08:40:10 2025
    [...] although I bought college text books on specific
    computers to learn what I was doing so maybe it's not that
    different.. B)

    The QUE line of books on various OSes were pretty good for me.

    My first computers were Apple II+ based so I was using books
    that were supplied by Apple to the colleges.

    I suppose I had a few others which had sample programs in them
    that I would copy out and then modify to work better for practice
    but those were not college books, more for new programmers to
    play with.

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Ogg on Thu Jan 1 01:21:49 2026
    Re: Decline Of Pc's
    By: Ogg to Rob Mccart on Sun Dec 28 2025 08:50:00

    The QUE line of books on various OSes were pretty good for me.

    Those were great books, each one tome. I still have my Using HTML 4 Special Ed. book.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Rob Mccart on Thu Jan 1 09:39:26 2026
    Rob Mccart wrote to OGG <=-

    My first computers were Apple II+ based so I was using books
    that were supplied by Apple to the colleges.

    For me, it was O'Reilly books with the black and white animal drawings
    on the front.

    My first experience with them, was, as a fledgling unix admin, having
    to replace a DNS server in our office. We'd borrowed a SUN box from the
    local university that provided us with our internet circuit, and they
    wanted it back.

    I went into the office on a Saturday morning, fired up a pot of coffee,
    took an old desktop PC and loaded BSD/OS on it. Picked up Cricket Liu's
    DNS and Bind book, and by 1:00pm had a fully working DNS server
    handling forward and reverse zones for 3 class C subnets.

    Well written, they are.




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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Thu Jan 1 08:20:35 2026
    I think some Private schools get around this but for most students
    you need to be working from the same playbook..

    Yes, and no. I suppose they get around independent curricula by being
    >teaching more than the public school curriculum, but my daughter
    >transferred private to private and lost a year of her math because the
    >old school's class didn't line up to the new one.

    Yes, that's the sort of thing I meant about all schools should be
    working from the same books.

    It can be be just as bad moving from one school district to another.
    I remember moving when I was in Grade 3 and finding in some subjects
    I was well ahead of the new school and in others I was behind.

    And I think that was using the same books, just different teaching
    methods, the timing of things. As long as you get it all by exam
    time, it's all good..

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jan 1 13:20:14 2026
    Re: Re: Decline Of Pc's
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rob Mccart on Thu Jan 01 2026 09:39:26

    For me, it was O'Reilly books with the black and white animal drawings
    on the front.

    I've had a few of those over the years. I still have a couple: "CSS and Documents" and "What is HTML 5".

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