[plug] MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

[Christian]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:31:36PM +0800, hooli wrote:
 
> I don't have the opportunity to be at a lecture live and serve it up, but I 
> have been frustrated no end at times with notes and other such material being 
> soley produced in word for example.  Other instances include having to 
> purchase Matlab when Octave is bloody marvellous, Frontpage I am told is THE 
> only way to produce a web site.  The graphics programs to use are Photoshop 
> or Paintshop Pro, and Powerpoint is just the beez neez....

Regarding lecture notes, you have a right to complain if you can't view
these but you can actually view these under Linux pretty reliably so I
don't see that there's really a huge problem with this (PowerPoint is
another matter though).  However, you won't get an Word lecture notes
from me (for obvious reasons!).

Regarding Frontpage, Photoshop and Powerpoint etc. being taught, what do
you expect?  These are standard applications for this sort of work.
There's no point teaching people who are going to write web pages or do
multimedia stuff how to use some obscure application under Linux -- in
their career they're almost certainly going to be using Windows or Mac.
Having said that though, there *are* units that use Linux/Unix so if
you're doing a CS degree then it's not like you are not given the
opportunity to learn this stuff.

> Having said that,  I do know of some folk at Murdoch that prefer any brand of 
> OS other than M$.  Sheesh BSD even!  Unfortunately they don't seem to be 
> involved in the curricula.

The three Unix-based units I know of, off the top of my head are B338,
B310 and B228 -- the latter being mine.  Not sure if I know you or not
but, if not, you can add another Murdoch-based Unix user to your list.
Regarding BSD, what do you mean "Sheesh BSD even!"?  What's wrong with
BSD?

Regards,

Christian. 

-- 
DSA 0x0EC1D28C: BBCB 0D79 4EBB 078A A066  7267 8BED E9D6 0EC1 D28C