Cours d'informatic

After some weeks of delay because we didn't get hold of any computers to use we now finally have started our computing course. It was informed about during the sunday service (you should have seen our faces when we suddenly heard our names within a lot of blabbering we didn't understand), but that's about all we knew about what audience we would have. We didn't know how many, and how much the knew about computers, and what they wanted to learn. Of these three I was most worried about how many, as we only have 3 computers..

But the perfect amount appeared; 5. I had prepared some theory in the beginning, at a quite basic level; "This is the mouse. It's what you use to control the pointer you can see on the screen". However, when we let them try the computers it was obvious I started at the right level; Some of them I had to persuade into touching the mouse, and when they finally did, it would take them about a minute to move the mouse where they wanted it.. And when I explained the marvellous trick of lifting up the mouse if it gets into a troublesome position, "ahaa!". I should have them play a shooting game or something, where the mAus is something you really have to master.. ;)

The day and age we're living in, even in Cameroon, I'd say basic knowledge of computers are very important skills. The people we had in our class were university level students, no doubt they'll need to know computing.