Another objection is that the information age has not resulted in all of our
students having computers - or if they do, having computers that can
handle the memory and storage gobbling graphics.
When you evaluate such programs, picture the student mom, who finally
got the kids to bed at 10pm, sitting down to watch such stuff on the
computer - or worse yet, not having a computer and having to schedule
lab time during a busy day.
For developmental courses, there are a few good alternative texts which
exploit the much more accessible, portable and cheaper graphing
calculators.
Summit does have some nice programming and seems to be making more
of an attempt to implement the STANDARDS. Only two chapters were
available for our perusal. It is still on a Mac platform and needs a
powerful microprocessor.
Mike Mallen
Santa Barbara City College