I would love to do a GIMP class, or a Blender class (which I'm learning as fast as I can for our summer youth camp). Blender (especially the 2.57b) is an amazing piece of software. I'm seriously considering trying to create a small bare motherboard render farm for it. ;) Phil Waclawski
----- Original Message ----- From: "der.hans" <[email protected]> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2011 9:58:37 PM Subject: Re: Summer Linux Classes at Mesa Community College Am 23. May, 2011 schwätzte Phillip Waclawski so: moin moin, uh oh, the boss showed up :). > The full, official title of the class is "Linux Operating System" > http://www.maricopa.edu/curriculum/A-C/042cis126dl.html The incorrect name we use in promo is almost definitely my fault. > I agree that we do indeed need to write a class for an "Intro to the Linux > Desktop". I'm more interested in getting classes for desktop productivitity that could include applications such as LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, GNUcash and OpenShot going. ( Phil does have a MySQL class coming up in the fall. ) > I disagree that we should throw out the command line. While it is not > necessary for the average user to know all the power of the command line, it > is a disservice to our students to pretend it doesn't exist. I have amazed > some windows users with what you can do at the command line in windows, and > of course there is now "powershell" and other tools for windows command line. > A desktop class should only have a very brief/quick intro to the command > line, but I would be opposed to a class that doesn't even mention it. I agree that a GNU/Linux desktop class should have a short intro to the command line. ciao, der.hans -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ # Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to # see it tried on him personally. -- Abraham Lincoln --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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