Just write something, add pictures and mix
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The Writing Center, $89.95, from the Learning Company, is an educational desktop-publishing package for children age seven and older. The program provides templates for reports, letters and even a two-column newsletter. Custom formats are possible, and the program is sufficiently powerful that adults could use it for their own letters or newsletters. The program is easy to use and has a built-in 100,000-word spell checker. It comes with a good 200-page manual. The Writing Center runs on an Apple Macintosh, except for 128Kbyte or 512Kbyte machines. A hard disk with 3,200Kbytes is required. Separately, a book by Chris Crawford is mentioned and recommended. The book is titled 'How to Program: the Skill That Will Sharpen Your Thinking.' Crawford claims that anybody can do programming, and he explains why doing it can be good for you. The book sells for $5.95 in bookstores, or it can be ordered from the publisher, Storm King Press, Friday Harbor, WA, for $7.20, which includes postage and handling.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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Electronic notes for cribbing or cramming
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Monarch Notes I, $99, from the Bureau of Electronic Publishing, Parsippany, NJ, is available in a full-text version that includes all 200 of them, all collected on a CD-ROM disk. The data base is easy to use, providing menu-like options for choosing subjects, and there is a study guide with a bibliography of further readings. Monarch Notes is actually a series that was written over decades of time and by many different authors, so that the individual books vary in their style and what they contain. PC Therapist III, $59.95 plus $5 for shipping and handling, from Thinking Software, Woodside, NY, is an artificially intelligent program that won the Loebner Prize passing a Turing Test. From a remote terminal, five out of 10 judges could not decide if they were talking to a computer program or a human. PC Therapist IV, described as 'cuter but less convincing,' includes an animated head that talks.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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Electronic toys for girls and boys
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Gametek has obtained licenses from Fisher-Price to manufacture computer versions of some of their toys. My Grand Piano, which teaches music basics, includes thirty-one songs. Firehouse Rescue challenges coordination and memory by having a child steer a fire truck through mazes to rescue people from burning homes. Both programs are listed at $14.95 and run on IBM compatible, Apple, or Commodore computers. The Learning Company offers Reader Rabbit, an outstanding reading program, for children 4 to 7. Super Solver Midnight Rescue by the same company improves reading and deductive reasoning skills for youngsters 8 to 11. These packages are priced at $39 to $59.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1989
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