Teaching People How to Play Solitaire
January 16th, 2008
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I started off with lofty ambitions to “save the world” by revolutionizing the way NGOs use technology. I have traveled to 3 different countries, worked in 15 different offices for 2 different NGOs, run countless trainings for over 80 participants. But I certainly haven’t revolutionized anything, and on the bad days I worry if I’ve done anything other than rack up Airmiles.
But today, I took some satisfaction is one of the smaller things - teaching 3 of the staff to play Solitaire. Nothing monumental in the grand scheme of things, but rather significant if you’ve never used a computer before. And it’s perhaps the most significant step towards training them to use the Supply Chain Management database I designed.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Hi Mikey
One brick at a time buddy…
January 17th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I think you mean “One card at a time.” Or, possibly, “Three cards at a time.”
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Maybe just design a GUI that makes the data structures look like cards and they’ll have no problem using it.
January 23rd, 2008 at 8:36 am
I set it to deal one card at a time - best to make it as easy as possible!
Good idea for the GUI Aaron, but I may end up going into the warehouse later, and finding that they’ve stacked all of the red items on top of the black items!
April 7th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Or just stacked all items into four stacks.