Free Software school club?

[Joseph Kubik]

"Personally my CS degree didn't involve any time on MS products at all."
I have a CS degree, and like Lennart had very little exposure to or
need of MS for it.
I have been a linux user for 8 years now. I know the OS in and out (I think).
However, I've never had a chance to learn anything about MFC / .NET
etc. And, the lack of that knowledge has all told been hard on my
career at times.

All that said, The position I hold now requires detailed admin skills
on at least Linux and windows, and preferably Netware too.  And a lot
of knowledge of OS internals (schedulers, init, network stack poking
and prodding, disk I/O), none of which I learned in school and I wish
that universities had a better practical approach to theoretical
knowledge.
-Joseph-

On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:53:44 -0500, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:01:36PM -0500, David J Patrick wrote:
> > Can anyone (point to, or) put together a clear comparison / projection
> > of IT opportunities / incomes MSCE vs RHCE (or other GNU/linux
> > certification) ? I'm sure such a case is easy to support and has been
> > presented recently, in the tech press. It would be good to round up the
> > argument on one punchy page, and then plunk that page in some
> > influential in-boxes.
> 
> I personally don't have an interest in either of those two
> certifications.  I don't actually much care for any of the
> certifications, having met enough people with those certificates who
> don't have any practical knowledge for actually fixing real problems.
> Not sure how they manage to pass those certifications in those cases.
> 
> I am sure there are lots of people with certifications that do know what
> they are doing though.  I just seem to have had the bad luck of
> encountering a bunch that didn't.  Maybe it's just that the ones who
> know what they are doing, don't go around making a big deal out of
> having certification.
> 
> Personally my CS degree didn't involve any time on MS products at all.
> Some first year pascal course was on MacOS, but everything else was on
> Solaris, Ultrix, AIX or Irix.  To me a CS degree should teach students
> how to write algorithms well, and basic concepts of different types of
> programming languages and where each is generally appropriate.  The
> actual language to use for a given assignment may be dictated where
> necesary, but otherwise left up to the student. (ie don't let students
> doing an assignment on string manipulation do it in perl since that
> defeats the purpose.)  Doing courses on a specific programing language
> or enviroment doesn't teach you much about programming in general.
> 
> Lennart Sorensen
> 
> 
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