---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rod James Bio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:49 PM Subject: Re: [plug] FOSS-powered IT education To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" < [email protected]>
Im a student here in UPLB and all I can say is that Computer Science here is great. Unlike what I used to hear before that UPLB is only for "Agriculture". Hehe. Faculties here are well adequate and knowledgeable in their respective fields. Students here are given the freedom to pursue whatever field in CS that they want. Pablo Manalastas wrote: > Ateneo de Manila University has compsci labs with PCs that dual boot to > Ubuntu / WindowsXP. The student has a choice. But for most classes it is > actually the teacher's choice. The OS / SystemProg teachers obviously use > Ubuntu (Linux). When I taught OS I had the students install Fedora8 in one > classroom/lab. > > Any of UP/UPLB/Ateneo/DLSU is a good choice. If you have the money and the > brains, you should go to Ateneo or DLSU, and give the UP/UPLB slot to the > poor but brainy students. > > But you have to get accepted first, and getting accepted is usually not so > easy. BTW, the school will not accept you if you use an alias like "Slim > Joe" in your application. > > P~Manalastas > > P.S. If I were looking for a good compsci school, I will not take the "use > of open source technology" as the only criterion for selecting the school. > You have to look at the faculty (how many teachers have PhD/MS degrees), > your classmates (are they smart?), lab facilities (in the area that you want > to specialize in), the library (books, journals, online access, etc), > research output of faculty and students, etc. > > > > --- On Tue, 8/12/08, Slim Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> From: Slim Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [plug] FOSS-powered IT education >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 9:16 AM >> I'm (sorry for using an alias) thinking of going back to >> school to get >> an IT-related degree, most probably plain ComSci. So >> I'm looking for a >> college or university which is either biased in favor of >> free software >> like GNU/Linux or at least allows students to substitute >> free software >> programs for the "recommended" proprietary >> solutions, say >> OpenOffice.org instead of MS Office or GCC instead of >> Visual C (?). >> Are there any? >> >> > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > UP
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