[hackerspaces] Linux courses

[john arclight]

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...

Arclight

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 4:19 PM, tetsu yatsu <tetsuharu at gmail.com> wrote:

> My personal suggestions:
>
> Give them an immediate application, something they do anyway that
> could be made easier, for instance:
> academic things: mass-downloading pdfs, mirroring websites, converting
> PDFs and other images, mass-mailing, using 'grep' to locate valuable
> information at-a-glance
> leisurely things: downloading youtube videos, mass-downloading youtube
> videos, converting mp3s and video files, downloading porn (assuming
> your students are 18+ :)
>
> Computers are fantastic for iterating over sets of things. Windows
> just isn't very good at giving you that ability. Once someone realizes
> 'if I just loop through this for i = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
> and download all of them, then I'll have TEN porno videos instead of
> 1!', they'll be hooked.
>
> Give em something to satisfy their need for computational automation
> and benefit. Write simple small scripts that do what they want to do
> that are long enough to be useful but short enough to be easy to
> comprehend.
>
> Other than that... teach them to mass import their data into MySQL,
> and manipulate it with PHPMyAdmin.
>
>
> These are things I've known that entice people.
>
> On 9/26/09, Vladimir Vassilev <vladimir.vassilev at startup-bg.org> wrote:
> > Ahoj!
> >
> > A friend of mine started teaching Linux to students from the university
> as a
> > volunteer. It's not a part of the educational program, but his own
> > initiative. He asked me for some ideas and suggestions to make the
> process
> > more useful for the students and make the knowledge easier to gather, but
> I
> > couldn't help him much.
> >
> > Do you have any experience in taking part in such courses and can you
> give
> > any suggestions for making it more interactive (and attractive) to the
> > students? Any study materials (tutorials, presentations, guides and so
> on)
> > that you've used and would like to recommend?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Vladimir Vassilev
> >
> > Vice President
> > init Lab
> >
> >
> > Start UP Foundation
> > mobile: +359 885 44 84 75
> > www.initlab.org
> > www.startup-bg.org
> >
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