Great thought. I think for subjects like software engineering with topics like software configuration management hands on labs or SVN or Git can be a boon to students.
All other FOSS alternatives should be used in colleges. Warm Regards, Geshan Manandhar http://www.geshanmanandhar.com Developer, YoungInnovations Pvt. Ltd. http://www.yipl.com.np Blog @ http://geshan.blogspot.com Tweets @ http://twitter.com/geshan On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Manish Regmi <[email protected]>wrote: > hi all, > its so nice to know about the FOSS related stuffs going on in > Nepal. I was also happy to hear about syllables included in +2 course. > But even today in some engineering colleges, Open source softwares are > not used while teaching programming languages and other subjects. > > They still use Turbo C v 1 to teach C and C++ programming courses (and > probably other courses that need programming lab work). and apart from > being outdated it is a copyrighted product and is free only for > registered users of C++Builder 2007+. I agree that TC can do whatever > is taught > in undergrad C/C++ courses and i have nothing against TC. but i think > GCC (+ other FOSS stuffs) has more to offer to the students. > > may be the teachers does not want to experiment with new stuffs or > some may even don't have expertise. > they don't even have to switch to Linux and just use cygwin or mingw in > windows. > what might be the solution? > > may be FOSS community can do things like organizing hands on training > on how to use those tools? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > regards > Manish Regmi > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [email protected]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
