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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><BR>Yesterday I went to the microsoft store and spent about 3 hours "playing' with the new surface pro 64</DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Aside from the fact it is a very pricey toy, there wasn't much advantage over the PC's that we have.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px">It only has 1 USB port whch would require a hup if you wanted a Flash drive and a mouse</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px">It will run the A2 program from a flash drive. Could not run A3 since I wasn't able to DL anything on the demo model </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px">The screen drag works but a mouse (any USB will work) is better than the finger/stylus drag - guess it takes getting used to. My arm was tired from reaching for the screen and there is no elbow support. The accuracy isn't good even with the stylus.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px">The screen gets filled with fingerprints and would have to be properly cleaned often</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px">I had brought a USB keyboard with me and I used that instead of the cover/keyboard available for $120 as an extra</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0px">Win8 is not as user friendly as Win7. Found out that win 7 is built on the XP foundation but win8 has a whole new backbone.</P>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT size=+0><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>-=mh=-</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML><BASE target=_self><BR><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT>-----Original Message----- <BR>>From: alice-teachers-request@lists.andrew.cmu.edu <BR>>Sent: Feb 16, 2013 12:00 PM <BR>>To: alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu <BR>>Subject: alice-teachers Digest, Vol 31, Issue 6 <BR>> <BR>>Send alice-teachers mailing list submissions to <BR>> alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu <BR>> <BR>>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <BR>> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers <BR>>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <BR>> alice-teachers-request@lists.andrew.cmu.edu <BR>> <BR>>You can reach the person managing the list at <BR>> alice-teachers-owner@lists.andrew.cmu.edu <BR>> <BR>>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific <BR>>than "Re: Contents of alice-teachers digest..." <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>Today's Topics: <BR>> <BR>> 1. First Alice class (Michael Franzl) <BR>> 2. Re: First Alice class (Pat Sitaraman) <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- <BR>> <BR>>Message: 1 <BR>>Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 17:50:16 0100 <BR>>From: Michael Franzl <OFFICE@MICHAELFRANZL.COM><BR>>Subject: alice-teacher First Alice class <BR>>To: "'Alice educators'" <ALICE-TEACHERS@LISTS.ANDREW.CMU.EDU><BR>>Message-ID: <511E6748.2090103@michaelfranzl.com> <BR>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed <BR>> <BR>>I just wanted to report that today I first introduced Alice to my <BR>>college Computer Science class here in Austria and that the students <BR>>(18-25 years) totally loved it. I followed the Appendix A of the <BR>>"Learning to program with Alice" book during the class and gave them the <BR>>assignments from the end of Chapter 1. All of them did very well. <BR>> <BR>>I'm thankful for the great program and book and am looking forward to <BR>>the following classes. <BR>> <BR>>Michael <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>------------------------------ <BR>> <BR>>Message: 2 <BR>>Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:46:20 0800 <BR>>From: Pat Sitaraman <PPSITT@YAHOO.COM><BR>>Subject: Re: alice-teacher First Alice class <BR>>To: Alice educators <ALICE-TEACHERS@LISTS.ANDREW.CMU.EDU><BR>>Message-ID: <1ADEC534-2FC7-4B65-A121-B8F977C61E78@yahoo.com> <BR>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 <BR>> <BR>>Michael, <BR>> <BR>>What version of Alice did you use ? <BR>> <BR>>Thanks, <BR>>Pat <BR>> <BR>>Sent from my iPad <BR>> <BR>>On 2013-2-16, at ??12:50, Michael Franzl <OFFICE@MICHAELFRANZL.COM>wrote: <BR>> <BR>>> I just wanted to report that today I first introduced Alice to my <BR>>> college Computer Science class here in Austria and that the students <BR>>> (18-25 years) totally loved it. I followed the Appendix A of the <BR>>> "Learning to program with Alice" book during the class and gave them the <BR>>> assignments from the end of Chapter 1. All of them did very well. <BR>>> <BR>>> I'm thankful for the great program and book and am looking forward to <BR>>> the following classes. <BR>>> <BR>>> Michael <BR>>> _______________________________________________ <BR>>> alice-teachers mailing list <BR>>> alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu <BR>>> https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>------------------------------ <BR>> <BR>>_______________________________________________ <BR>>alice-teachers mailing list <BR>>alice-teachers@lists.andrew.cmu.edu <BR>>https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/alice-teachers <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>End of alice-teachers Digest, Vol 31, Issue 6 <BR>>********************************************* <BR></BODY>