That would require a classroom with powerful enough computers that can run CF. That's a pretty large investment. I know in my university, all the students have laptops, so it would be a lot easier to have a shared server and have all of the students put their work there. It would also teach them more about what goes on in the real world, as most developers develop straight on the server, and a lot of times straight on the productions server.
Having each student install CF and IIS or apache on their own PC might be a bit of a pain, and laptops in general are not very good choice for running CF servers, although I know some people are doing it, including me. Those who are just taking this as a class, might not appreciate their laptop slowing down because of CF though. Russ > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Rouse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:21 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: ColdFusion: Some People Just Don't Know Any Better > > As a student you typically do not have to pay to be able to put up a > hosted > PHP page. Most universities give their students free web accounts and > most > of those accounts have access to PHP. At least that has been my > experience > with three major Universities here in Texas. There are of course > limitations to what you can do, for example I know the University of > Houston > provides the accounts, PHP, and even Oracle accounts but I do not think > they > provide a way for students to run PHP pages that connect to the Oracle > database. > > I personally do not see why a class could not be taught using no more than > the developer version of CF. Each workstation would have it loaded up as > would the teacher's machine. > > On Feb 7, 2008 1:56 PM, Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Flex is client side technology. Guess what - the "client" for CF, > > which would be you running CF on your own machine, is also free. > > Shoot, as it stands, CF is "more" free as you don't have to be a > > student to run it on your own machine for nothing. > > > > Now your argument stating that you would only learn it if you could > > host it - I'm not sure I'd say thats a common belief - but you have to > > pay for PHP hosting as well. > > > > On Feb 7, 2008 12:03 PM, Brad Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On a related note, according to James Ward from Adobe (who visited my > > > user group last night) the educational pricing for Flex is free. > > > > > > I would definitely be in favor of similar educational pricing for CF. > I > > > learned CF in college in my spare time, but NOT because of the > developer > > > edition but rather due to a friend who owned a CF server and let me > host > > > their for free. If it hadn't been for that there's no way I would > have > > > bothered with CF when I couldn't actually use it for real on my > personal > > > site to experiment with. I would have probably gone over to Perl or > > > PHP. > > > > > > ~Brad > > > > > -- > > > > > ========================================================================== > = > > Raymond Camden, Camden Media > > > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Blog : www.coldfusionjedi.com > > AOL IM : cfjedimaster > > > > Keep up to date with the community: http://www.coldfusionbloggers.org > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298477 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
