On 19/09/2007, Aidan Gauland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And on an unrelated matter: what would be the closest free and open > source program to Microsoft Front Page? I have never used it, but > I'm taking this REALLY brain-dead distance course in "Internet and > webpages", and the people running this thing said, before I applied, > that using Linux would be no problem, and yet they only give > instructions for MS Front Page.
Because education funding is a bums-per-seat model, there is pressure on education providers to get you in regardless of your suitability to the course. I recommend you dig out the email that said Linux was OK, and put a bit of pressure on the instructor to provide linux instructions. I say this as a former computer-science educator, not as a previously disgruntled student (which I'm not, BTW). Part of the problem is that even though a capable software developer might enjoy and even prefer teaching, writing code will pay about 2x what a teaching job will pay. That's my experience anyway. Cheers, Carl.
