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banjoman · 02-06-2008, 18:48

I`m sure that when slide rules and log tables first came out, the "older" generation tutted and said "none of that in my day". I dont see anything wrong in using the tools of the day as thats what people will use in the real world. At the end of a day a calculator will only provide the right answer if you put the right details in so you have to know what you are doing.

Now if they were allowed google and email to get someone else to do it then I agree thats not correct, but a calculator is fine. Its a bit like in an art class...If someone submits a project which is CGI, but they have made it all themselves etc is it any less art just because a computer made it rather than himself directly ?

02-06-2008, 18:48	#16
banjoman Full Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: A galaxy far,far away Posts: 155 Liked: 3 times Rep Power: 43	Re: How times have changed I`m sure that when slide rules and log tables first came out, the "older" generation tutted and said "none of that in my day". I dont see anything wrong in using the tools of the day as thats what people will use in the real world. At the end of a day a calculator will only provide the right answer if you put the right details in so you have to know what you are doing. Now if they were allowed google and email to get someone else to do it then I agree thats not correct, but a calculator is fine. Its a bit like in an art class...If someone submits a project which is CGI, but they have made it all themselves etc is it any less art just because a computer made it rather than himself directly ?