I guess we all agree on one thing and that's to more or less just put in the course the strong recommendation for students to use their brains and do their own research and pick one of the languages available (provide them with a list of options maybe, with or without a short description) and learn how to use it...
And how about to put a question in the exam for them to write down (or select from a list / radio buttons / etc) some names of programming/scripting languages? Just to make sure they remember it is for their own good to do something about this other(s) scripting/programming language(s)... Cheers On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Alexandru Juncu <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 February 2015 at 11:49, John Lupa <[email protected]> wrote: > > probably a scripting language should be recommended to be learned besides > > sh/bash? > > for maintenance tasks that a linux sysadmin would have to perform. > > sometimes another language helps (for example a while ago I wrote a test > > script that was taking some hours to run and rewriting it to use > > multi-threading in one of these languages its execution time was reduced > > DRAMATICALLY...) > > and having options is awesome - python, perl, php and others... > > > People should learn other programming/scripting languages. They are > always useful. I don't think anyones is contesting that. > But it's not something that should be included in the exam because > it's not something critical. > Including it would create a precedent where anything could be included > because 'it's nice to know'. > There are thousands and thousands of tools a Linux user / Linux > sysadmin use. They can't all be included. > > The goal of the LPI exams is to include things that are essential and > used by the majority. > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 7:25 AM, Lennart Sorensen > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 02:36:06PM -0500, G. Matthew Rice wrote: > >> > "To err is human, but to really foul things up you need Perl." > >> > > >> > Just kidding. I actually quite like it. > >> > >> I know perl quite well and use it quite a bit, and I sure think it is > >> an awful language. Of course I use C even more and think that is a > >> terrible language too. > >> > >> -- > >> Len Sorensen > >> _______________________________________________ > >> lpi-examdev mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > lpi-examdev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev > _______________________________________________ > lpi-examdev mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev >
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