As a rule, from what I've seen, none of the instructors teaching
Linux at Wake Tech are especially knowledgeable about *running* Linux.
Interestingly enough, after posting this I ecountered one of Wake Tech's Linux instructors (Herb Henderson) in the hallway between classes, that same night. I asked him which class he was on his way too and he said "Linux Security." He then pointed out how weird it was that they had him pegged to teach that class, and acknowledged that he has little experience with Linux.. after that encounter I started to wonder if it was Herb who's teaching the class the original poster referred to.. which led me to realize I should clarify something about what *I* said.
By no means did I intend to imply that the Linux instructors are Wake Tech are bad instructors, or dumb, or unqualified in a *general* sense. Taking Herb as an example.. I've taken his Introduction to High Performance Computing Architecture class, (which is basically an Operating Systems theory class) and can save without reservation that Herb is a very smart guy... IIRC he has a Masters degree in Computer Engineering as well, so he's hardly an incompetent teacher.
And the instructor of my NET-155 class does not lack intelligence or enthusiasm either, she just doesn't have a lot of "real world" experience specifically with Linux.
So it's not that Wake Tech has "bad instructors"... it's just that some of them have been miscast, by the administration, to teach courses where they do not necessarily have a lot of background or expertise. Herb H. is, as I understand it, a real wizard with AIX. But, knowing AIX means essentially nothing when it comes to configuring something like IPTables.
Anyway, I just wanted to clarify that. In general, I'm pretty happy with the HPC program at Wake Tech so far... and would still encourage others to look into it. I'm taking their Parallel Programming course this summer, which is something I have high hopes for, in terms of being a very interesting and rewarding class... If I remember, I'll post my assesment of it after the semester ends.
TTYL,
Phil
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