2008/8/11, Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
That doesn't seem like a choice at all. Would the students be required to have Windows in their home computers? Or could they do, let's say, their homework at the compsci labs for free? > 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. How about the bourgeois but brainy students 8-)? > 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. That goes without saying. > 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. Actually that's one of my two criteria: (1) A roof that doesn't leak and (2) the use of open technology. I'm sure Ateneo/La Salle/UP are good schools. But it'd settle for poorer quality provided that (1) and (2) are satisfied. I'm not being cynical. It's just that the best learning comes not from being taught by a competent or incompetent teacher but from what the student his/herself does as part of the coursework. (There are exceptions to this of course. I'd hate to be treated by a doctor who was taught by incompetent instructors.) _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
