Re: Crazy little web project

> > Why? The challenge, the deeper understanding of the protocols I'd gain, the
> > fun I'd have! You see, I'd have to sit down and learn how the whole thing
> > hangs together (TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML or XML, etc.). What better reason to do
> > it? Consider it an out-of-hours hobby. I just didn't want to build my own
> > back-yard rocket ship to find out that the engine doesn't fit. ;-)
> 
> As a learning experience, I think it'd be great idea! . . .


I would second that. And it reminds me of an old proverb that was posted
in my high school U. S. History classroom. It seems that the teacher was
one of two, in adjoining rooms, who often team-taught a combined class,
and who both specialized in classroom simulation games (and indeed,
wrote several of them). The proverb reflected their teaching philosophy 
perfectly:

I hear and I forget;
I see and I remember;
I do and I understand.

-- 
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