Every computer lab I have been in within the past 3 years has had computers that could easily handle the needs of CF and even CF and MSSQL Express. This includes 4 Universities and 3 community colleges. I had to install CF onto my personal laptop within the past year for a class that was not even CF related at all, it just had a bunch of examples in a CFM application and the book detailed how to install the developer version and how to run it. Out of the 45 or so people in the class, I do not recall one person complaining about anything in regards to the CF.
On Feb 7, 2008 2:29 PM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:298517 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
