[ILUG] Linux Teaching -- prepare 3 day course

[cybersean3000 at yahoo.com]

I bet I could crank out a couple of newbie users or newbie admins in 3 
days (with an espresso machine)

-=Sean=-

On 27 Sep 2001, at 11:42, Wynne, Conor wrote:

> I completely agree. 
> 
> As part of the trainee program, us boyz have to run various different
> courses on all flavours of OS. 
> We tried to do a linux course in three days but its just impossible. 
> 
> What we did do was a one week fundamentals course. vi, file systems
> structure etc, no gui's at all, telnet, shells - bash korn etc. Pretty basic
> stuff but essential before going into gui stuff. 
> 
> Actually another week we covered a few unices,
> openserver/unixware7.11/linux.
> 2.5 days each. And at the end we made a comparison between them. 
> This may seem insane but it is a good introduction for a total newbie. 
> 
> One can actually cover most other stuff in a further week or less but its
> kinda pushing it - doable though. 
> 
> Just get your notes right. Handouts, slides and stick rigoursly to the
> schedule. 
> They will not remember everything, but they shall have an overview. 
> 
> Then run a more advanced course and charge them again :)
> 
> So to recap (and you will need the last day/afternoon for this) 
> Course 1, unix fundamentals
> 1: basic shit no X stuff - learn the basic shell(s) (not scripting - this is
> for an advanced course) 
> Make sure they understand the way the shell reads the command. If they have
> only experienced DOS before, then they will automatically presume that each
> application has its own options and the shell processes will go over their
> heads. 
> You will need the guts of a week for this. 
> 2. 3 days to cover the GUI stuff
> Course 2:
> Shell scripting and more advanced sysadmin things. 
> 
> A little note, do the course for your partner or anyone really, ideally a
> newbie and time everthing. Else you will not possibly be able to cover
> everything on your list, also you will find yourself jumping around the
> place. 
> Tell them there is an exam at the end and its closed book, they will pay
> more attention. 
> 
> Hope this is of some meager help. 
> CW
> 
> -----------------------
> I was asked about this once and I ran screaming from it. There's NO way you
> can present this material in 3 days - you'd be hard pressed even to skim
> over it in an introductory way. It simply takes much more than 3 days to
> make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Niall
> 
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