[IAEP] Library Activity

[James Simmons]

Carol,

I meant no insult to children.  I just thought they could benefit from a 
basic structure which they could then add to.  Not everyone is good at 
designing hierarchies.  It's something you have to learn.  My own mother 
has not really mastered the idea of hierarchical file systems.  (Dad 
leaves the computing to Mom).  My wife, when asked where walnuts could 
be found in the supermarket, answered "In the Nut Section."  The answer 
I was looking for would have been "In the Baking aisle."

James Simmons

Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:
> Jim, children are great collectors.  I just think it is wise to try 
> interfaces with varying numbers of items before concluding that one or 
> another mode is "too complicated".  If you'd like to try an interface 
> that has tunable complexity, you might like to get a copy of the 
> readerware trial.  I can supply a database with around a thousand 
> books as a sample (my daughter's old elementary school was incredibly 
> generous with a book drive!).
>