[ale] Linux "course" at GT?

[Chris Woodruff]

The Linux General Store (www.linuxgeneralstore.com) offers a few Linux
courses and they are located right off the GaTech campus.  I would contact
Joe there and talk with him.

Chris Woodruff
Worldwind Technologies

----- Original Message -----
 From: Rob Butera <rbutera at ece.gatech.edu>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 9:00 PM
Subject: [ale] Linux "course" at GT?


>
> This email is intended more for the Georgia Tech affiliated people
> on the list.
>
> I teach an introductory sophomore level (Intro to Computer Engineering)
> that is required for all EE, CompE, and Computer Science majors.
>
> When I am setting up or hanging out before class starts, it is astounding
> how often I hear students talking about Linux.  What surprises me even
more
> is a lot of them talk about it, but not many seem to actually have taken
> that leap to using it, despite its growing popularity.  I have seen
similar
> situations in the GT bookstore: 2 students browsing the software, looking
at
> a copy of Red Hat and saying "hey that's Linux. Someday I will get around
to
> figuring that out."
>
> So my question to the GT (or GT affiliated) people on the list: has anyone
> offered an Intro to Linux course? Not a class credit course, but some sort
> of optional "extracurricular" night class (like the GT Edge program), say
> one night/week for 4 weeks, that eases someone into using Linux.  It could
> even begin (or end) with an installfest.
>
> Maybe this has been done before (I have only been at GT since June), but
> it appears to me that we have the critical mass to do something like this.
> If anyone is interested, maybe we could pull something together for next
> semester.
>
>
> For the more geekily inclined, the ECE faculty just approved a new
graduate
> course that is of interest: I don't recall the exact title, but it is
> generally about networking, starting at a high level (TCP/IP, IP
addressing
> schemes) and by the last 4 weeks of the class getting into Linux kernel
> hacking of the network code.
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Robert Butera, Assistant Professor
> School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences
> Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
> contact info --> http://www.ece.gatech.edu/users/rbutera/
>
>