[Tfug] CIS faculty at PCC west disavow existence of Linux classes

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> 1)  Harry McGregor was not a member of the CIS department and no one
> was  teaching any Linux classes at Pima.  I guess this guy is so
> threatened by Linux he has achieved a special advanced state of denial.

 Harry isn't a full time faculty member. The fact that he does all his
teaching in the late evening and weekends, it's quite possible they have
never met.
>
> 2)  No one could use a Linux computer to do the assignments in his
> class, because he requires assignments to be turned in on a disk
> readable in Windows.  He even argued that one for a couple sentences
> and then gave up and admitted that it would be possible.
>

Both Goldarg and I took Dave's C Programming class and used our Linux
laptops (debian and redhat respectively at the time). He told us up front
that he would not support Linux, and any problems we had were our to figure
out. That was fine with us. As for the floppy, mkfs.vfat and winblows
doesn't know the difference and neither will he. We never had any problem
turning stuff in or him running it.

> 3)  The University of Arizona offers no "C" programming class.  I
> don't know, maybe he just isn't aware of anything that happens outside
> of his office.
>

No comment on this one. He told us a few times that he logged into a unix
machine at the U to compile stuff occasionally. When I took his class it was
transferrable to the U for credit. I heard rumors that the UoA was using
java or c++ as an intro language, maybe that's what he meant in hus mumbling.

I'm surprised. I found Dave on of the better teachers at Pima. He does well
introducing C as a first language to non-programers/incompetent users.
Though no amount of good teaching seems to help me move above a mediocre
programmer. =)