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Linux is inching into college curricula (NewsForge)
NewsForge looks at
open source use in American colleges and universities. "While it
may be not soaking in as deeply at Ivy League or Pac-10 institutions, Linux
and open source are a growing part of the curriculum at Marist College in
New York. The 4,800-student school, with more than a decade of Linux
leanings thanks primarily to the interest of school president Dennis
Murray, has partnered with IBM, the Library of Congress, and most recently,
Open Source Development Labs."
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Linux is inching into college curricula (NewsForge) Posted Jun 10, 2004 22:58 UTC (Thu) by samj (subscriber, #7135) [Link] That's great but lets not forget MS are weasling their way into curriculums left right and centre,at all levels. I can handle people being instructed on how to use a word processor with word, but Visual Studio .NET et al for programming? People, *please*, if you have anything to do with curriculums resist the urge to use 'cheaper' MS tools. Perhaps C# is a useful language but does it really teach more about programming than the same course in Java would? Perhaps C is an 'old' language, but is it not a better idea for our graduates to have some idea of what's going on under the bonnet than to spend all their time searching knowledge bases for workarounds for VB bugs and limitations? And what's wrong with teaching MySQL/postgresql where databases are required? At least by using FOSS tools, students are free to use the tools while training, and while in the workforce (rather than forcing employers to use MS platforms).
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