View Full Version : Educators may decided to discuss FOSS
cprofitt
June 28th, 2010, 02:02 AM
This poll -- http://twtpoll.com/r/mp37le
If option 2 wins I will be able to discuss Open Source Software and Open Content/Courseware
Here is to hoping #2 wins... its a very tight race right now.
wilee-nilee
June 28th, 2010, 02:27 AM
I'm not a CS major but at the college I attend they have a Linux mirror and Linux is part of the curriculum.
http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/
Legendary_Bibo
June 28th, 2010, 02:52 AM
At my college they have a class for using linux.
oldsoundguy
June 28th, 2010, 03:05 AM
In the US (and most likely elsewhere), any educational facility that hosts a Linux mirror, most likely, offers classes in Linux/Unix.
cprofitt
June 28th, 2010, 03:06 AM
The college near me has some courses that engage with Open Source and just hosted POSSE.
cprofitt
June 28th, 2010, 01:14 PM
Checked this morning that the topic that would invite a discussion of open source and open content has a slight lead. I hope it can keep its lead.
cprofitt
June 28th, 2010, 11:09 PM
Thanks to those voting -- we have a little bit larger lead now, but it has slipped by 2% in the last hour.
chessnerd
June 28th, 2010, 11:17 PM
My college has students use Linux very early on in the CS and IS programs. We have two labs running only Linux on the highest-end machines at the university (they replace a bank of machines every year with new, top of the line ones so there is never a machine older than three years running in there). Sadly, only CS students like myself have access to them (you need a keycard to just get into the labs) but the university uses Linux to teach students about operating systems and for programming classes.
cprofitt
June 29th, 2010, 12:41 AM
Chessnerd -- that is awesome -- most of the teachers I will be talking to are K-12 teachers. I have been waiting for almost 12 months for them to have a topic that I could fit Open Source in. I am excited this could be the time finally.
Bachstelze
June 29th, 2010, 12:53 AM
As I ranted about a couple months ago, the whole CS department of my university seems to be full of GNU supporters, so virtually every computer in the department and all of the computer labs run Linux (Ubuntu). Other departments use a lot of Windows, but generally, Windows is only used on university computers when there is a compelling reason to. I wish they'd let us use vim for coding, though. :(
Primefalcon
June 29th, 2010, 12:55 AM
As I ranted about a couple months ago, the whole CS department of my university seems to be full of GNU supporters, so virtually every computer in the department and all of the computer labs run Linux (Ubuntu). Other departments use a lot of Windows, but generally, Windows is only used on university computers when there is a compelling reason to. I wish they'd let us use vim for coding, though. :(
What do you have to use for coding?
Bachstelze
June 29th, 2010, 12:55 AM
What do you have to use for coding?
emacs
MCVenom
June 29th, 2010, 12:56 AM
emacs
:eek:
Bachstelze
June 29th, 2010, 01:03 AM
:eek:
inorite?
cprofitt
June 29th, 2010, 02:52 AM
I use SciTE and vim currently...
formaldehyde_spoon
June 29th, 2010, 03:01 AM
This is in no way intended to be negative towards anyone who's posted here; I just want to say how amazed I am whenever someone says ''CS at my college(uni) has a Linux lab/class''.
I wonder how anyone can study CS seriously without AT LEAST a very large dose of Linux.
How will CS graduates from unis with little/no Linux cope in the real world of CS?
The CS department at my uni has 9 Linux labs, and one Mac lab specifically for first year students, no Windows labs (there used to be a small one, but it was used only to play games, so it was converted to Red Hat).
The rest of the university uses Windows (except for dual boot in Engineering).
cprofitt
June 29th, 2010, 03:23 AM
This is in no way intended to be negative towards anyone who's posted here; I just want to say how amazed I am whenever someone says ''CS at my college(uni) has a Linux lab/class''.
I wonder how anyone can study CS seriously without AT LEAST a very large dose of Linux.
How will CS graduates from unis with little/no Linux cope in the real world of CS?
The CS department at my uni has 9 Linux labs, and one Mac lab specifically for first year students, no Windows labs (there used to be a small one, but it was used only to play games, so it was converted to Red Hat).
The rest of the university uses Windows (except for dual boot in Engineering).
Good to hear that... how many FOSS projects does your university contribute too? That is the next level I think... and I hope it starts to be a trend that more do.
Getting Linux in the K-12 arena would help a great deal too.
Primefalcon
June 29th, 2010, 03:34 AM
emacs
Ick I don't like emacs Vi/m for the win :-)
Sheesh I remember when I went to highschool (quite a while back now). The school had 2 computer rooms (all macs). funny thing is the only thing the school used them for was how to run MS word on them..... that's all they were used for..... Thats the only computer lessons they had.....
cprofitt
June 29th, 2010, 03:29 PM
Ick I don't like emacs Vi/m for the win :-)
Sheesh I remember when I went to highschool (quite a while back now). The school had 2 computer rooms (all macs). funny thing is the only thing the school used them for was how to run MS word on them..... that's all they were used for..... Thats the only computer lessons they had.....
It is sad. There are some of us working in K-12 that would like to see that changed...
The perception that MS Word use in Business classes is computer science training needs to change.
Poll update -- the topic has a 6% lead now, but it is still really close - http://twtpoll.com/r/mp37le
MichealH
June 29th, 2010, 04:57 PM
I voted :D
Austin25
June 29th, 2010, 05:57 PM
Those are all very interesting topics. In our school, we don't have nearly as interesting stuff to write about for essays.
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