This can be easily sorted out (well almost easily ).
We must realise that tc is not a language.
The language we want to teach is c and it is the programming language
which all OS runs.
I said almost because we don't use graphics.h in linux the same way we
do on the digitally dangerous Windows.
But one thing to know again is that it is *extremly important * to make
sure we teach concepts.
The univercities wants students to learn c language. Unfortunately many
Heads of the Departmente in IT and Comp Science beleive that tc is a
language and some thing other is another c.
So this awareness has to first develop, only then there will be a thrust
if at all to make univercities talk in terms of gcc or some thing similar.
One ground of justifying this is to let the masses in IT education
realise that it is impossible to teach subjects like OS architecture
using the proprietory OS.
Can you ever show your students the Linux Kernel?
Do they have any scope to practically see how memory management works?
There are many such justifications and I have just touched the tip of
the ice burg.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Wednesday 14 April 2010 02:38 PM, Jagjit Phull wrote:
I will half way agree to you, I train people on these foss platforms
and many fresher students want to learn c/c++ on GNU/Linux after they
have realized that TC is not the way to go.However, to be proactive
can we get this on university levels/ govt levels..?
Even if we create a free online edition, they are not going to
follow,as they are already following the way of all others who are
doing it with TC...
The only suggestion I would make is to just make students/professors
aware that there's a free world out there...also I do not think all
colleges must be using licensed copies for TC...
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Rather than highlighting these kind of guys who are of no use to
us, as they
> do not support our cause, we very well focus on educating the
> masses/colleges, professors by seminars/workshops and make them
realize that
He is not 'just another guy'! Whether anyone agrees or not, his books
have created a complete generation of programmers - where they land up
and what they realize is another issue.
The REAL fight is in first and second year of technical courses where
kanetkar books as well as Turbo C++ rules. Once the mindset of
students and faculty members is set with TC, they start resisting the
very need of FOSS. Their golden time of first and second year has
already been wasted with turbo C, so we can utilize a very small
amount of their time and space left after second year and mostly they
get elective papers which vary college to college.
We NEED to amend this situation. probably by producing free online
edition of 'Let us C/UNIX'
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GNU/Linux User Group - Meerut
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