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

[klsmith]

I took C with Louis Taber.  He was Linux friendly.

Keith


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Keith Smith
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Blanford" <jimmybgood@cox.net>
To: <tfug@tfug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 4:58 PM
Subject: [Tfug] CIS faculty at PCC west disavow existence of Linux classes


> I went in to talk to Dave Druml about taking his "C" programming class.
> It was obvious he didn't want to bother paying any attention to
> prospective students.  He barely spoke beyond grunts except to announce
> firmly that he could make no special accomodations for any student. Mind
>  you I wasn't asking for any accomodation, but he obviously wasn't
>  paying any attention to what I was saying.  He was just responding to
>  key words that penetrated through his academic haze.
> 
> The only other things he said were rather curious:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I think I'm going to complain to the county supervisors.  I'm sick of
> sky-high real estate taxes going to pay for a community education system
> that arrogantly ignores the educational needs of the citizens.  And I'm
> sick of my tax money going to pay for proprietary software products so
> that old hacks (not hackers) can stick around and perpetuate the Bill
> Gates hegemenoy.
> 
> I'm glad I didn't sign up to take that course (why is another rant).
> Does anyone here know where I could learn "C" in an emvironment that
> isn't hostile towards Linux?
> 
>      -  Jim
> 
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