I believe that the only way to have a viable computer science program in the
schools is to go open source. So far, very few people agree, at least in
our school district. I hope the parents will appreciate the increase in
quality with the cost savings.
jeff williams - cfiaime@nconnect.net
Actually Open Source has relatively more advantages for teaching CS (as
opposed to Office Apps). Our Advanced Placement Computing curriculum
calls for Java. With that in mind there are a number of really excellent
Open Source development environments such as Eclipse, Netbeans, JGrasp,
Bluej.