[Yr7-10it] Re: [Year 12 Its] Re: [Yr11 Information Technology] Programming Awards2006: PD Registrations

[Con Zymaris]

On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 10:34:19AM +1000, Tony Forster wrote:
> >>Students who are registered by their teacher at the site before the end 
> >>of
> >>term will receive FREE copies of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 sent to
> >>their school.
> >
> >FREE, huh? Get 'em while they're young, milk money from them later on?
> 
> ScreenIt 2006, to be announced soon, will have categories for computer 
> programming and animation, a range of programming languages will be 
> accepted. 

That's great. 

But in the meantime, most students in Victorian schools get force-fed VB.
And as most of you know, most people stick what what they get taught on
computers initially and never look to alternatives. And if students get
taught VB, they are forever trapped on the Microsoft platform, because VB
wont ever run on anything else.

But hey, that's all good with Microsoft, right? That's why all those
copies of Visual Studio are 'free'. ;-)


Cheers,

Con Zymaris

- CEO, Cybersource Pty. Ltd.
- Director, Open Source Industry Australia, Limited.
- Convenor, Open Source Victoria (A Government-funded industry cluster.)
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