Definately. Here in Berkeley, the UC leans in the BSD direction, as I'm sure you can imagine (this is not true of every UC. I hear that Davis uses a lot of Solaris and Linux machines). I know from friends that the City College in San Francisco also uses *nix...my impression from talking to various people around the Bay Area is that every educational institute here uses *nix pretty heavily. Not my high school, though. Luckily, the computers all let you boot from the CDROM, so the Knoppix disc I carry in my backpack comes in handy.
Daniel --- Chris Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree. Better to go to a university that gives you > a good solid > foundation in computer science and then to > specialize later on. > > If you want to learn about *nix programming, why not > pick a university > whose courses show loyalty towards working on *nix > platforms? At my > alma mater (the University of Michigan), they > started us off from the > first year programming on Solaris and every Intel > machine in the labs > dual-booted with Linux. Its certainly a lot better > than a school that > only teaches you programming in MS VC++. > > Chris M. > > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:23:45 -0600, Monique Y. > Mudama > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 2004-06-23, Cecil penned: > > > I'm headed back to school. But I had a thought > after I considered why > > > I wanted to go back to school. It would be > totally cool if there was > > > some sort of "Linux School". A 4 year or 6 year > school, where you > > > majored in... oh.. for example, Driver > development. Or game > > > programming. Or a specific language. Major in > C++, and minor in > > > assembly. Things like that. Major in a scripting > language. Bash major, > > > Perl minor. Am I just nuts or does this excite > anyone else? Does it > > > even exist? If it did, I'd go there, and not > back to college. > > > > Majoring in languages makes no sense to me, unless > you want to be > > pigeonholed into one language for the rest of your > life. Learn > > concepts, not languages. > > > > Driver development, game programming, etc, would > be great -- as > > continued education programs, like a master's. > You have to learn how to > > design and code software before these kinds of > courses will do any good. > > > > Just my opinion, since you asked. > > > > -- > > monique > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > Chris Metcalf > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://chrismetcalf.net > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ===== BoxBattle.com - Semper Absurda -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
