Date:         Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:00:06 -0600
Reply-To:     Jon K Peck <peck@us.ibm.com>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Jon K Peck <peck@us.ibm.com>
Subject:      Re: New tutorials on MULT RESPONSE (in syntax)
Comments: To: John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
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Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
peck@us.ibm.com
new phone: 720-342-5621




From:   John F Hall <johnfhall@orange.fr>
To:     SPSSX-L@listserv.uga.edu
Date:   03/13/2012 02:02 PM
Subject:        Re: [SPSSX-L] New tutorials on MULT RESPONSE (in syntax)
Sent by:        "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@listserv.uga.edu>



Precisely

I'm aiming at students and researchers who only have Gradpack or who have
never heard of SPSS, but have survey data to process (a growing population
now that academic institutions are looking for cheaper alternatives) for
many of whom English is a second language. My tutorials should work with
every release from 11 onwards and my syntax is much easier to understand
and follow than anything created by the GUI.

>>>I have nothing against syntax - I designed a lot of it (as well as a
lot of the SPSS gui), but I'm genuinely baffled.  I taught a lot of
students in days of yore, and I cannot believe that this syntax solution
is easier to understand than the gui.  Not to mention that the gui is
translated while syntax is not.  And current students would be on versions
long past 11, so compatibility that far back doesn't seem to be of much
benefit.

>>>Jon Peck


John Hall
[snip]

Email:    johnfhall@orange.fr
Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com
Skype:    surveyresearcher1


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