On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:48:23AM -0500, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 03 April 2004 05:34 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Saturday 03 April 2004 11:17 am, Alexandre Dubois wrote: > > ->Not sure what you are after, what is your current knowledge in IT in > > general ->and Linux in particular. Oreilly (http://www.oreilly.com/) are > > known to be the ->leader editor for opensource projects. > > > > O'Reilly is great, own several of the books myself - and I referred these > > friends to their web site. > > > > They responded that was great, but we don't see them here in our > > community/colleges... > > > Darklord: > > I took a look at the Linux offerings from our local tech college (Wake County > Community College) -- three courses related to Unix; no mention of Linux; > lots of Windows/DOS stuff. Ouch. It gets worse when you consider that the > campus is about five miles from Red Hat's headquarters; it's another ten > miles further down the road to IBM's (huge) Research Triangle Park > installation. > > Then I kicked it up a notch and went to North Carolina State University's > website to check out their undergraduate Computer Engineering and Computer > Science courses. Searches on Linux, Unix and even Windows came up empty. > That's understandable given the traditional view that an engineering > education is about learning basic principles rather than the specific details > of a particular end technology. End result: Several courses on various > aspects of operating system design, but zilch on any particular OS. That's OK > for someone who is starting on a new career, but not for someone who's > already out there chasing the bucks. <snip>
At the tech college where I work, we have one person that dominates a portion of the IT curriculum. So, if you want to learn about Web publishing, you won't learn any free database or scripting languages, you'll be forced to learn IIS, java, asp and .NET. I keep telling them I don't know anybody who uses that stuff, which is probably just because I'm selective in choosing my friends ;) but seriously, to think we're graduating people who don't know squat about Apache, php, perl, mySQL etc. seems like we're doing a big disservice to our students. It's really dangerous, I think, to put all your eggs in one IT basket. But I'm just a freak that doesn't understand the "business world" so nobody listens to me. Todd
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