Comments on: Practical exercises for Linux newbies

By: TimothyP

TimothyP — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:33:38 +0000

Hey,

I’m also teaching Linux at Syntra West.
We should get in touch and exchange a few ideas.There’s a mailing list for the students, perhaps you could add your students as well?

Send me an e-mail if you have the time,
so we can exchange ideas and such.

By: Serge van Ginderachter

Serge van Ginderachter — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:16:59 +0000

Small world. I’m teaching the same course in Kortrijk I’m Using Paul Cobbaut’s course, and still am teaching the basic’s. Lot’s of time dedicated to shell scripting and others.

First get the basic stuff, then move to more advanced things.

But the group I’m teaching now is totally new to Linux, and also needs this.

By: Dieter_be

Dieter_be — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:07:37 +0000

Ask them what they do often and what could be automated.

This will work very well on linux as a desktop OS, not so much on server boxen.

eg : do they have a blog? twitter? a website with ftp access? show them how to make scripts to do blogposts, or to sync their ftp space with a local directory, let them use their apache box as image server, by cronning a script that compresses the images and uploads them.

with tools like zenity , curl, imagemagick, crontab and rsync you can do lots of cool stuff. If I can come up with this, I’m sure you can come up with tens of other examples

By: vincent

vincent — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:05:51 +0000

In evening school we installed a mailserver per student. Afterwards the test was to send mails to every domain (we also configured a dns server per student so each had his own domain).
That was quite fun, i guess interaction with each other does the trick.