From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-04-06T02:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Novice school teacher seeking help in programming

On 04/05/2010 05:49 PM, Hilary Bailey wrote:
> Matthew K. Williams wrote:

>> Taking a step back, what sort of program are you wishing to write?  What
>> sort of problem are you hoping to solve?
> 
> It is a program that will evaluate the progress of a school district.

Do you really need to program for that?  I imagine the progress of a 
school district is measured in terms of a bunch of statistical figures. 
  If that's the case then you might be able to build on your Excel 
skills.  Excel is a really great tool which can do amazing things for 
you (legal notice: I do not claim that it can make coffee).  And you can 
even combine it with nearly any relational database to pull data from 
and visualize it.  (OpenOffice can do similar things but the online 
documentation is by far not as good as Excel's.)

Kind regards

	robert

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