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From: John English <je@bton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada student homework ?
Date: 2000/11/20
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John Magness wrote:
> 
> Or could it be that we now have a generation of students so accustomed to
> using the web as a research tool that they have not learned the use of a
> physical resource such as a book?

I have a cartoon from a newspaper on the wall of my office. The
caption is "OK, I'll read it -- how do you turn it on?"  ;-)

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