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Article #2499Re: A way to make educational programs pay
From: TerrellE
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 14:00
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 14:00
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In article <8991@chinet.chi.il.us>, saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes: > The suggestion is to follow the textbook publishers an have a separate > teachers's edition of programs that are specific for the educational market. > Include LOTS of supplementary material. I mean dozens of megabytes. Things > like digitized page images. Stuff an instructor can use, but instead of > following the usual imperative to make it as compact as possible, make it > LARGE. And put it on CD-ROM. As portable as the technology allows, so > the teacher can get maximum use out of it. I think your idea is interesting, but as a software developer myself, I take a big risk even printing 100 copies of a paper manual, buying the disks, etc. It is expensive to "manufacture" software, just as it is expensive to develop the code... The costs of putting everything on a CD-ROM would be even worse (at least for a single developer...) Terrell
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!druhi!terrell From: terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: A way to make educational programs pay Keywords: teachers's copy CD-ROM Message-ID: <4426@druhi.ATT.COM> Date: 19 Jul 89 14:00:04 GMT References: <8991@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO Lines: 21