[svlug] Local Classes

[David E. Fox]

> On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Marilyn Davis wrote:
> 
> > I teach Intro to Unix/C at the Extension and I teach the GNU
> > programming tools to rank beginners in a unix lab.  There is a Unix
> > Administration Certificate, and other Unix stuff as well as

I wonder what courses are needed to get this certificate? I'm looking for
employment in possibly junior-level system administration, but
don't have work experience in that area. :( (But I've been using
Linux for a long time. ) :) Perhaps Marilyn will chime in.. 

> I have had friends taks classes at both UCSC Extention in Sunnyvale and at
> De Anza college. Their opinion was that for most things, the De Anza

I got my education at De Anza, but that was before Linux/Unix. At
that time they mostly had terminals connected to an IBM mainframe and
an HP 3000. When I left, they had just started to put in a VAX for
some of the courses (C & Pascal, for instance). (I left about
1986 or so..)

It was a good grounding in CIS, but the lab did leave some things
to be desired. Most programming was done in the context of
writing reports: one grabbed known input data, did some programming,
and gave a printout with hopefully the correct output. It was mostly
batch-like, rather than interactive in that sense. And I distinctly
got the feeling that the people who ran the lab didn't trust the
students; they might break the computers. I did take an operations
course, but we weren't allowed to do much. :(

It's probably better now, but I don't know for sure.

> George Bonser
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