LOGO-L> Re: LOGO-L> My evaluation of ToonTalk

[Brett Leach <brettlea@earthlink.net>]

RAY CATZEL wrote:

>  I have a headache. I have just spent an hour (I thought Ken deserved
> it for all his hard work at promoting the product) and ended by
> Uninstalling it from my system (Win98). With all this talk about
> special features of parallel processing and many others I really did
> not comprehend, I am disappointed in the product. If this is intuitive
> for elementary school kids,  so is anything that you spend lots of
> time learning how it works. It is very visual. However, IMHO I don't
> think kids will have an easier time working out how to operate a
> "vacuum cleaner" (one of the numerous icons) than learning "copy and
> paste" concepts in Windows. I really don't want to waste any more time
> on this evaluation description. If the others on the list want to
> evaluate the product I can only reassure them that the software does
> uninstall. I hate to submit a critique such as this for a product that
> Ken has spent so much time on. But I'm only being honest. Have Fun!
>
> Ray Catzel,
> President, ComputerPals Inc.
> Web site: http://www.computerpals.on.ca/~pals
> Email: learn@computerpals.on.ca

I have to disagree with this. I downloaded ToonTalk a couple of nights
ago. Woke up the next morning and found my son (10) fascinated by TT. No
instruction or anything, he just saw the icon on my desktop and decided
to check it out. I've watched him do some incredible stuff so far.





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