teaching novices to use sam

[forsyth@minster.york.ac.uk]

if they like its style, it's fairly easy to get experienced
programmers to use sam happily.  has anyone, perhaps at a university,
any experience in trying to get novices (ie, students) to use
sam as a first editor?  (some, but not all, will actually have used
fairly simple minded editors under Windows and similar systems
at home and at school.)  i made sam and a few other mouse-based
editors available to students during the last academic year,
but because many were taught vi (not by me) as the first editor,
i suspect they never bothered to switch.  others found difficulty
getting to grips with the mouse (quite likely because it wasn't
a good make of mouse).  what experiences have others had/seen?