[CLUE-Talk] interesting home business article - from slashdot

[Evan Widger]

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From: "G. Richard Raab" <rraab at plusten.com>
To: <clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 2:05 AM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Talk] interesting home business article - from slashdot

> Who was your teacher?

His name is Sean Kirkpatrick. Adjunct professor at Santa Rosa Junior
College. he was too truthful with the schoolboard about teaching practices
for them to make him a full time professor(i.e. he believed teaching and
learning should be fun, they were not amused; his staff picture for a long
while was him in a propeller beanie, he created his own 'beanies rules to
programming' found here: http://gracie.santarosa.edu/~seank/ or rather, here
http://www.bogusville.us/~seank/srjc/BeaniesLaws.html )

>
> BTW, training is another area that you can go into, but it is hard to
break
> into. But if you write your own material and approach the right ppl, and
> offer the right price, it is doable.
>
> Here are some classes that you can look at;
>
> here is a linux sys ad class that is about 65 % done that I taught at
Avaya.
>
> http://12.254.22.176/~rraab/LSA

this looks alot like the 'intro to unix' class i took taught by another
professor but also taught by Sean, i wish i'd taken it from sean but this
was the semester before i met him. the text we used was ... crap i forget
the book but it had a penguin on the front sliding belly first across an
iceberg and was a really good reference to the online class. it's around
here somewhere but in a box i'm sure.

>
> This was started, but no where near close enough.
> http://12.254.22.176/~rraab/PERL

looks like a start, the perl class used a text from Wrox and recommended
tons from O'Reiley (being in sonoma county tends to make you lean towards
them, they're located about 20 minutes west of Santa Rosa in Sebastopol, in
fact one of the members of my perl class worked there) including Perl
Cookbook, Programming in Perl, and the one i bought, Perl for Sysadmins.


at this point the biggest problem with me teaching something like linux or
perl is my own lack of knowledge in the subjects. i could teach win98 for
people that don't know squat about computers, i'd get annoyed but i could
teach it. i just don't know enough about the more advanced stuff, which goes
back to going back to school. hrmm. that idea keeps coming up. maybe
someone/something is trying to tell me something. anyone recomend a good
school around here to get a BS in CS? a good, cheap school?

- Evan Widger
   PsychoI3oy at linkline.com


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