Good idea. I learned Linux when I needed to build a mail server ASAP and we couldn't afford a commercial product. And then we needed firewalls for several customers, and so on...<br><br>Arclight<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 4:19 PM, tetsu yatsu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tetsuharu@gmail.com">tetsuharu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My personal suggestions:<br>
<br>
Give them an immediate application, something they do anyway that<br>
could be made easier, for instance:<br>
academic things: mass-downloading pdfs, mirroring websites, converting<br>
PDFs and other images, mass-mailing, using 'grep' to locate valuable<br>
information at-a-glance<br>
leisurely things: downloading youtube videos, mass-downloading youtube<br>
videos, converting mp3s and video files, downloading porn (assuming<br>
your students are 18+ :)<br>
<br>
Computers are fantastic for iterating over sets of things. Windows<br>
just isn't very good at giving you that ability. Once someone realizes<br>
'if I just loop through this for i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,<br>
and download all of them, then I'll have TEN porno videos instead of<br>
1!', they'll be hooked.<br>
<br>
Give em something to satisfy their need for computational automation<br>
and benefit. Write simple small scripts that do what they want to do<br>
that are long enough to be useful but short enough to be easy to<br>
comprehend.<br>
<br>
Other than that... teach them to mass import their data into MySQL,<br>
and manipulate it with PHPMyAdmin.<br>
<br>
<br>
These are things I've known that entice people.<br>
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On 9/26/09, Vladimir Vassilev <<a href="mailto:vladimir.vassilev@startup-bg.org">vladimir.vassilev@startup-bg.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Ahoj!<br>
><br>
> A friend of mine started teaching Linux to students from the university as a<br>
> volunteer. It's not a part of the educational program, but his own<br>
> initiative. He asked me for some ideas and suggestions to make the process<br>
> more useful for the students and make the knowledge easier to gather, but I<br>
> couldn't help him much.<br>
><br>
> Do you have any experience in taking part in such courses and can you give<br>
> any suggestions for making it more interactive (and attractive) to the<br>
> students? Any study materials (tutorials, presentations, guides and so on)<br>
> that you've used and would like to recommend?<br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
><br>
> Vladimir Vassilev<br>
><br>
> Vice President<br>
> init Lab<br>
><br>
><br>
> Start UP Foundation<br>
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