And then there are the games for little _girls_, which actually go one step further in dumbing it down. Everyone seems to be dead sure that little girls are too stupid to even understand more complex stuff than dressing up Barbie or becoming prom queen in 5 dialogues. Or if not too stupid, surely girls don't have other interests and can't be motivated to follow any other plots, right?
have you ever played any of the Barbie games on the computer? My 4 year old loves Barbie Rapunzel and it's a bit more than dressing up Barbie.
(a note about CompSci: I know a friend that took AP CompSci in C++ and he has no freakin clue what a class is. This was 3/4 through last year)
I believe it. Last spring I took a C++ class at a private university that was an undergraduate or graduate class (CS275 or CS500) depending on how you registered. We didn't cover classes until the very end of the semester, and it was just breifly mentioned. Fortunately I was taking the course for free, but I would have been VERY pissed off if I was paying for it. -- Fran
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And then there are the games for little _girls_, which actually go one step further in dumbing it down. Everyone seems to be dead sure that little girls are too stupid to even understand more complex stuff than dressing up Barbie or becoming prom queen in 5 dialogues. Or if not too stupid, surely girls don't have other interests and can't be motivated to follow any other plots, right?
have you ever played any of the Barbie games on the computer? My 4 year old loves Barbie Rapunzel and it's a bit more than dressing up Barbie.
I believe it. Last spring I took a C++ class at a private university that was an undergraduate or graduate class (CS275 or CS500) depending on how you registered. We didn't cover classes until the very end of the semester, and it was just breifly mentioned. Fortunately I was taking the course for free, but I would have been VERY pissed off if I was paying for it. -- Fran