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Re: New Civil Engineer letter
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lugnet.technic
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Tue, 3 Jul 2001 08:40:27 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> Jen dug up the doc I was thinking of (which was brilliant of her, thanks
> muchly!!! It ought to be on the Technic front page, everyone ought to go
> read it). A course that teaches this stuff and that doesn't use the Duplo
> predigested sets (which don't suffer from weakness since they were designed
> specially for this) ought to first start out with a quick overview of how to
> build strong things and what the principles and idioms are. That would
> counteract this criticism... and make for better education overall. As well
> as more fun for the kids.
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> Helps?
Very much so, except my home PC is useless and I'm not allowed to download
files at work so I can't get the document (plus I've never done an FTP
before and I don't really understand it (I'm a Civil Engineer not an IT
specialist, dammit!) I'll get it somehow because I think I need to read
that before I finish the letter.
I've drafted a letter which will be up shortly. I've trimmed all the bits
where I was ranting and not putting my case reasonably, but some of them
were fun so here are a couple of bits Mr Christopher Ward will not be seeing:
"I challenge Mr Ward to a race to build a model of a bridge of his choice,
him to use Meccano and I Lego, the bridge to be capable of carrying five
times its self-weight as a point load, first to be complete wins"
"Where's Boltnet, eh?"
(Is there anything similar to us for Meccano?)
Psi
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| Okay. Now I know how FTP works (i.e seamlessly, it wasn't like that in 1994 when I was at University!) As Gael says that is a cool article, just one question. Did the Constructopedia ever go online? I have never seen any reference to it on Lugnet. (...) (23 years ago, 3-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Yes, very much so! I think it would be a great idea to do so! What I am trying to say is that if you understand why the writer has the perception he does, and counteract it, I think your letter will be much more powerful. I think I see why he (...) (23 years ago, 2-Jul-01, to lugnet.technic)
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