[svlug] Feedback I received about the tea party event

[Barry Fujii]

	I have taken many programming in C/C++ courses, a Solaris multithread
programming course, and a single "learn Unix" class through Foothill.
Overall I was very happy with the experience.
	I also happened to transfer to UCSC, where I am currently taking my last
two classes. Because of the theoretical orientation at the UC campuses,
there isn't much push towards learning Unix, it's more towards the theory,
Unix is merely a tool to understand concepts. Nevertheless I am very happy
with the classes at both schools.
	I can say that the telecourses offered at the UCSC extension are sometimes
taught from UCSC via a pair of T1 lines, full video and audio with
multimedia whiteboards and all kinds of doodads, very neat, not very mature
though, and it must be very hard to follow from the extension end because
the teacher is in SC.
	I would suggest taking courses from Foothill first, all the professors I
had were top notch, among them were Dr. Loceff, Dr. Berry, and Dr. Silveria.
I am unsure of their titles, I am assuming they have Doctorate degrees. Dr
Silveria has some serious kung-fu skills when it comes to C/C++ on Unix
platforms though, he taught multithread programming under Solaris and we
also covered POSIX threads.

Barry

"Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread-without it, it's flat."
	Carmen McRae

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-svlug at svlug.org [mailto:owner-svlug at svlug.org] On Behalf Of Ray
Olszewski
Sent:	Friday, November 13, 1998 2:47 PM
To:	svlug
Subject:	Re: [svlug] Feedback I received about the tea party event

Apropos of Mr. Silverman's question about workshops on the basics ... does
anyone know anything about the quality of the Unix courses taught at
Foothill and (I assume) the other community colleges? They certainly are
cheap enough that cost wouldn't be a barrier. As somewhat higher prices are
offerings from UCB and UCSC Extensions, and maybe San Jose State.

What I know myself is limited and second hand. I know that a friend of mine
who took the Unix sequence from UCB extension a few years ago was happy with
what she learned there. My son is taking other (not Unix) computer courses
at Fothill and seems to think well of its CIS program generally.

So what do you think? Are any of these courses good enough to be helpful to
people new to both Linux and Unix?

At 10:26 PM 11/13/98 GMT, Marc MERLIN wrote:
[deleted]
>From: "Daniel B. Silverman" <dbs at microfocus.com>
[deleted]
>I was also
>wondering if anyone provided work shops outside of the install fests to new
>users on how to use Linux, i.e. learning basic grep commands and getting
>around in the operating system. Any helpful hints would be much
appreciated.

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