On 1/10/07, francis pereira mail.francispereira@gmail.com wrote:
there is a course called BSc.IT which has has a subject - operating systems and shell programming in the second year . 90% of the kids going through that have no idea of how to do anything except directory traversal and add 2 numbers with a shell program . Fortunately I am
BSc Computer Science has (atleast had during my days 4 years ago) a paper called "Linux Operating System". Abhijeet (Utopia Unltd) was our teacher and he had arranged for the first (and last?) GLUG meet in Ruparel College.
But yes, apart from me, none of the class of 24 even ventured near the OS and simply mugged up the commands and passed with flying colours.
The course is not much of a problem really; it's the way it is executed and evaluated that is faulty.
Regards,