Try FreeDos. It supports USB floppy drives.

Natural Reader highlights the text as it reads to you.

YRead doesn't have a fancy GUI but it is free.

We have sanitizing dispensers all over the building so the employees can sanitize their hands after a cough or sneeze to prevent the spread of flu. They are all empty since the company discovered that employees would bring in their own personal dispensers at no expense to the company if the dispensers were empty. I am waiting for the signs in the restrooms asking employees to use both sides of the sheet of toilet paper to save money.

W.C. Fields said it best "There's a sucker born every minute, and two to trim them". There are a lot of "universities" that want nothing more than to sign you up for financial aid and then march you out the back door with nothing. They will fill out the aid forms for you if you cannot write. If she had no talent for IT, then the college faculty was ethically obligated to inform her of the fact and direct her elsewhere instead of scamming her along for four or more years. I have nothing against higher education, I have three degrees myself, education, computer science, and a Master's in information security. I have seen people who had no talent for IT pushed along with the hope that "they may get it". They graduated with a degree but were only fit for mopping floors.

ITT Technical Institute does! I see it on my TV every day. "At ITT Technical Institutes, we are committed to helping men and women develop the skills and knowledge to pursue many opportunities in today's fastest growing career fields, including electronics, web development, computer programming,computer networking, computer drafting and design, criminal justice, business and health sciences" Most people go to college with the idea that the education you receive is going to get you a well paying job at the end. Otherwise why piss away tens of thousands of dollars? A lot of educational institutions oversell their ability to get you a job if you attend their institution and they are the masters of bait and switch. "Our counselor might have told you that you would get a job as a result of graduating from our institution but we never actually guaranteed it."

In the last decade there was a piece of word processing software called Yeah Write[^] that named its own files and gave the user a reference to the first line of the document in a file cabinet interface. All you needed to know was what the file was about not its name. It was written by the people who developed WordPerfect who left the company over a dispute about the direction the comapny was taking.

I agree and so does Science Daily[^]

Go ask Alice [^]. Let them be kids and have fun. IMHO dragging them into programming languages is going to be like forcing them to learn a foreign language. They're going to hate it and fight it every step of the way.

The best flow charting tool I have used is AllClear."[^]"> You write a flow chart script and the tool figures out how to design and draw the flowchart. It usually manages not to do "crossovers" and will connect multipage charts. You can crank out flow charts in no time at all. Since you have the script that created the flow chart you can use it as a document for people who don't do flowcharts. It's not free, not cheap, but then nothing that is any good is. It can reverse engineer the script if the flow chart is modified.

Thanks for the info. I know that last fall Micorsoft was pushing a "D" language and I thought I had seen something recently in a Redmond blurb that they were going to offer it in the next version of Visual Studio. Perhaps I am wrong.

Isn't this plagiarism or at least a copyright violation? The D Language has been around for quite some time. [http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/overview.html](<a href=)[^]"> They could at least have used to D#.

Good advice and he will be "brain dead" by 15. It's VB.Net for Dummies. Forget the language; He should learn the concepts of software development and then he can code in any language. Programming is like shoeing horses, once you learn how to do it properly, the horse becomes unimportant.

Badgers! Badgers! We don't need no stinkin' badgers! ;) Deep Water