-----Original Message----- From: Rick Sivernell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 22:38:43 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: problem for non Linux users - Windoze users
> Tom > > I was in class last night myself. A programming course, and the machines > they are going to use are linux. Now the Prof said you can use any languag > and any OS. He uses linux and c++, if you need help from him, well you need to > do as he does. One guy complained that he just bought a new machine and was > planning to put Mandrake on it. He has said that he has tried 2 times and it > fails to install. He would prefer to use Borland c++. He and many others > complained that they really did not know unix/linux. The Prof told the class you > were sused to learn that in the early courses and this course assumes you do. > After class over I said I would teach them how to do what they needed to know. Of > course for a price. They for most part turned it down, so far. This will be > grear. Hell 15 years ago they taught Unix, it was required. Some will have a > tough time on their project. A c++ program that outputs a script to a web > browser. This class should be fun, for me. Some people just don't want to be enlightened. It seems to me that you would definitely want to work on the same platform as you Professor. And if they didn't learn the Unix/Linux in the first class, what hell did they do? Sleep? <rant on> If it is like my school , even though is says you have to have class abc as a prereq to the upper level class, they never enforce it. I have missed several advanced classes I need because they were full because of this reason. Even the ones I have got into, you can tell the people who didn't take the prereq's because the all drop 2 weeks into the term. I hate that, we have a limited numbers of seats in the computer classes, they get filled by lusers who drop the class early, and by the end of the term there are only 6 or 7 people out of 25 left. If they would in enforce the prereq's all the people who need the class could actually get into it for the get go. <rant off> -- Tom Wilson -- Get your free email from www.linuxmail.org Powered by Outblaze _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
