[SGVLUG] PCC (Pasadena City College) class in Linux

[Joel Witherspoon]

Does Santa Monica offer any Linux certifications?

On 11/19/06, dmoore <dmoorelists at dslextreme.com> wrote:
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> Are you interested in linux ed? I teach a linux class at Santa Monica
> College (CS41). I'm doing it now for the 3rd time this fall. It took me
> a few years to convince them to offer such linux but we've now got it in
> the curriculum. I'm half-time and the only instructor there who knows
> linux, the other faculty seem (disappointingly) unmotivated to learn
> about it. Not that it doesn't take a certain significant commitment to
> do so, so I don't judge at all.
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> Every semester it's a question mark whether enough students will sign up
> to avoid canceling classes offered in the published catalog, but so far
> so good CS41 gets about 20 or 25 at the beginning of the semester (they
> cancel below 18) then it dwindles some but mostly as you know there's an
> undercurrent of interest in the computing/IT community and it's
> sustaining this class. I teach a networking class too (CS70) and base it
> totally on linux. Plus, we/they won some grant money from NASA to put
> together new curriculum about, among other things, network security and
> implementing it is my baby. I got some budget for the first time and we
> will introduce 3 new classes next year, 2 being mine (CS78 CS75) and
> being linux-based. We bought a big-memory server (from Clay Claiborne,
> Cosmos Engineering) and I'm going to use VMware to build some virtual
> networks out of virtual PCs in that memory, then interact them (VPNs,
> perimeter networks, subnets, low electric bills). I'm learning from it
> and it's fun.
>
> Linux ed in socal is patchy. Some schools have a good course or two,
> it's really personnel driven-- whether they have the person motivated
> and knowledgeable to teach it. Most don't. Those that do are islands,
> and sometimes the linux instructor leaves and that's the end of their
> curriculum. It's not uniform or consistent. Santa Monica College, apart
> from me happening to be there, is otherwise a Windows place
> thru-and-thru. Dan Kegel maintains some links about linux ed at his
> lalugs.org website.
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> David Lawyer wrote:
> > I once took a Linux class at PCC which didn't have many students and
> > was not given again.  It was called "Unix Administration".  I was at
> > the PCC bookstore the other day and noticed they have again offered a
> > Linux class.  It uses the textbook: Introduction to Unix and Linux.
> > The textbook only covers the command line and doesn't have anything
> > about email.  I doubt if it has much about networks.  It has a lot of
> > step-by-step exercises where it gives you a sequence of commands to
> > type so you can see what happens.  Thus it's more elementary than the
> > class previously offered.  It's aimed at people that know almost
> > nothing about Linux (or computers ??) and comes with a RedHat CD so
> > you can install Linux (probably an old version of it) on your PC.
> >
> > So if someone shows up at SGVLUG who knows almost nothing about Linux
> > or commands like cd, ls, etc.  Then this class would teach them the
> > basics of the command line interface.  I looked up "chroot" and
> > "emacs"in the index and found nothing.  But I did find a lot about the
> > vi editor.  Sorry but I didn't have time to check it out more.  The
> > class has already started and I don't know if it will be offered
> > again.
> >
> >                       David Lawyer
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