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Article: Top-notch program brings writing, publishing to kids
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 14, 1989
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FREMONT, Calif. Computers are tools. This basic fact seems to elude
a lot of software vendors. They labor to create one fancy,
complicated program after another, without thinking about how someone
will use it.
Some of the worst offenders have been companies that make
educational software for children. You wouldn't believe some of the
obtuse, needlessly complicated stuff I've seen parading under the
guise of "educational software."
Fortunately, at least one software vendor has seen fit to
produce programs outside of this misguided tradition. The Learning
Company, of Fremont, Calif., publishers of The Children's Writing and
Publishing Center, are one of my choices for software heroes of ...