[fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hi all, See the new syllabus of CUSAT for Btech. These guys are still prescribing Microsoft stuff. http://soe.cusat.ac.in/files/btech_s1s2_syllabus_2012.pdf 11 L2 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LABORATORY Application packages Word 1. to create an advertisement in word. 2. to illustrate the concept of

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread JeevZ
ohh.. happy that we had no such things in our time. :-) *-- JeevZ * +---+ * * *| !!Its Better to be Blessed With Nothing Than Cursed with Blessings!! |* +- --

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Anivar Aravind
This seems like new additions. I havn't seen such things in previous syllabuses atleast 3 years back Sad to see that all these came up after much hyped National Free Software Conference and Self proclaimed Free Software promoters joined in CUSAT syndicate (Anvar Saddath) Anivar -- "Freedom is

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
I am awaiting for the remaining part of the syllabus. I am sure matlab will be there. Sunil On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Anivar Aravind wrote: > This seems like new additions. I havn't seen such things in previous > syllabuses atleast 3 years back > > Sad to see that all these came up after

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Anivar Aravind
Please find . We need to build a list like this http://fosscomm.in/SyllabusReview On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote: > I am awaiting for the remaining part of the syllabus. > I am sure matlab will be there. > > Sunil > > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Anivar A

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Pramode C.E
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote: > Hi all, > See the new syllabus of CUSAT for Btech. > These guys are still prescribing Microsoft stuff. > > http://soe.cusat.ac.in/files/btech_s1s2_syllabus_2012.pdf > > Besides that, what is the point in "teaching" word-pro

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread JeevZ
> > Besides that, what is the point in "teaching" word-processors and > presentation tools in an Engineering curriculum? thats so true *-- JeevZ * +---+ * * *| !!Its Better to be Blessed With Nothing

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Arun M
I had a chance to talk to one of the senior professor on curriculum formation at BTech level as part of a research work I was using on technical education in Kerala. He told me fascinating stories of how curriculum/syllabus is shaped by Tuition mafia and trade unions which collaborate with them. Ac

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Roshan P Koshy
However there is a way like arranging a class for those who want to try these lab works with Libreoffice. I accept matlab in the syllabus because it s something like that professor is well acquainted with matlab code. -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You

[fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Visakh
Hi, On Sep 4, 2:11 pm, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil wrote: > Hi all, >      See the new syllabus of CUSAT for Btech. > These guys are still prescribing  Microsoft stuff. This syllabus worries me a little - not by the fact that it doesn't include FOSS, but by the altogether pointlessness. Use of M

Re: [fsug-tvm] gedit plugin embedded terminal linux mint

2012-09-04 Thread jaseem abid
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:34 AM, V. Sasi Kumar wrote: > I have been using gedit for my latex file editing work, especially in > Malayalam. And one of its features that I really liked is its embedded > terminal in the bottom pane that helped me to compile the file easily. > But now that I have upgr

Re: [fsug-tvm] gedit plugin embedded terminal linux mint

2012-09-04 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 20:55 +0530, jaseem abid wrote: > > > Gedit comes with a latex plugin[1] with shortcut keys for compiling > source files etc. Might be of help to you. I had been using gedit with the latex and other plugins for quite some time. However, I always found it more convenient to

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread jaseem abid
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Pramode C.E wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil < > vu2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> See the new syllabus of CUSAT for Btech. >> These guys are still prescribing Microsoft stuff. >> >> http://soe.cusat.ac.in/files/bt

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Pramode C.E
> exercises in the syllabus. I was expecting the standard to be much > higher these days -even for college freshmen. The general trend is downwards; it seems the fashion is to make everything look "simple" (by a process of dilution). > The Raspberry Pi was created to raise the standard of scho