While windows 95 was getting big, at school and we had a course of technical learning where we'd use a Thomson T-08 to move a robotic arm, picking bricks on a c

While windows 95 was getting big, at school and we had a course of technical learning where we'd use a Thomson T-08 to move a robotic arm, picking bricks on a conveyer belt. Were we impressed by the machine ? Hell no, everyone knew it was a piece of crap in that day and age. Just as we were not impressed by retroprojectors, chalk boards, out of date cassette players and 10. years old science experiment stuff. Did we learn to program the arm in some simple basic like language I forgot how it looked like ? Well, yes, because we wanted good grades. Like for every other course. I think most of us didn't care about programming, but at least the ones that never touched a computer before got to know how an algorithm would look like and how a program runs. Linux at school should be efficient on the same level, to teach basic things (not just programming of course) and give a first experience in something students might not care about at all. [1] http://atomictoasters.com/tag/thomson-t08/ http://atomictoasters.com/tag/thomson-t08/ PS: to be clear, I don't think linux at school should be used to push linux, helping some group's agenda shouldn't be school's role. Giving students more insight into how the *nix like systems work and can be used is a better goal, primary windows user could bet behind as well.