On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:43:28PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:28:09PM -0800, Tom Holub wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 05:11:00PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > > > Let them get a handle on their ship before you sic a base on them. > > I didn't say anything about a base. > > There is no reason for anyone to choose warp 5 in a ship with full fuel. > > The secnarios shouldn't teach people how to do things they shouldn't do, > > especially since failure to use maxwarp is one of the most common newbie > > errors. > > You don't necessarily teach somebody to program by having them write > an SGML parser. > > Rather, have them do something silly like counting to 10. "Hello World\n" > is just such an example. > > You teach people what tools they have available, and *then* you show > them how to make best use of them. You don't teach people to program "Hello World" using goto's. -Tom