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Duncan wrote: |
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> Wow! I know someone whose kid is just getting into *ix and asked for |
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> recommendations. This could be right up their alley as the kid is high |
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> school age. Regardless of what Gentoo does with this, I know one person |
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> that's getting a link to the class site (the etec150 dir) sent to them. |
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> =8^) |
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This is the kind of person I am trying to reach, every 13-20 year old in the |
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world that has an interest in computers but has no good way to start learning |
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about them. I have tried teaching beginners on some of the other distros ( |
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including Redhat, Ubuntu and Linux From Scratch ) but they did not have the |
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balance between difficulty and simplicity that is needed by a beginner. |
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Another interesting thing here is that I think a significant number of Gentoo |
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users and developers know a kid or two who would like to learn the fundamentals |
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of computers and Linux :-) |
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Instead of just making the ebook available on the Gentoo site, my thought is |
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that a free online class based upon the book could periodically be offered by |
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the Gentoo foundation to anyone who is interested. I have had some experience |
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teaching free online software classes over the Internet to hundreds of students |
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at a time and this works quite well if done correctly. |
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> I'm impressed to see this use of Linux in the educational system happening |
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> in the US, not just everywhere else, as it sometimes seems from the news. |
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> When you are done developing the coursework, I'd love to see pieces on it |
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> in LWN and/or sites such as Linuxwatch and linux.com/newsforge. I've got |
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> the site bookmarked and may be mailing you offlist, as well. |
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My first choice would be to have pieces issued to the Linux news sites that |
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indicate that Gentoo is offering a free course to newbies based on these |
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materials. If Gentoo ends up not taking this route, I will probably pursue the |
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idea on my own, but I really think that Gentoo would not have much to lose by |
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at least trying this idea as an experiment :-) |
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Thanks, |
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Ted |
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tkosan@×××××.com |
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