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[ldsoftwaresteve]

We're still checking it out. To give you an example of the kind of competition your wife would be up against if this was all free market driven, I've recently been studying microcomputers and finding out that there are some pretty big players out there. And they all want you to use their stuff. Development kits are damn near free and they'll even subsidize the price of chips and compilers for students. They have online 'webinars' and the quality differs between companies. Intel even has a web page that allows actual development and testing over the web without plugging hardware into your PC. So, the race for this type of teaching appears to be live and well. One company will try to outdo the other, etc. and the list of subjects they cover is expanding daily from interfacing a changing amperage sensor with a microprocessor to assembler language on a high end processor.

My son just responded: "yea i think you need to get a book to explain everything, this website just seems to have questions about the stuff you learn. So wouldnt it pretty much be the same as doing questions in a book?"

He also told me that one thing he read told him to read pages 1 - 20 in your textbook."

I suspect that it was because he was looking at a sample course. However, if they are still in textbooks, paper textbooks, I don't see it being able to respond very quickly to changing requirements. But at least it's a step in the right direction.