Hooks
Use the tools.
Word processors, presentation software, graphics programs, spreadsheets, are just a few kinds of computer utilities whose use is standard in the business world.

Seek samples.
This email address

faouzi@suvisoft.fi ... Faouzi Alaya Cheikh at Suvisoft Oy, Finland

could get you CORG.ppt, a very effective PowerPoint presentation file.
Links about patents and proposals sought appear at R & D Support Services Information.

Be brief.
Compose titles, captions, outline headings. Remember computing is an art. Use three sayings to guide your activities:

  • All art is selected details. - Paul Cezanne
  • Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. - Leo Tolstoy
  • The way to become boring is to say everything. - Voltaire
    Serve and profit.
    Nonprofit organizations present opportunities for new work. Find a customer or client and design to meet their need. Free work done in a project can turn into paid work.

    Homework
    22 January 2002 Version http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/hw.html

    ©2001 Allen Klinger