Contributed by Dengue on from the blame-it-on-Canada dept.
The story is here: http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200306/obsd-classroom.html
The page of the instructor (who has been getting considerably more media attention for the upcoming CPSC 599.48 course on Computer Viruses and Malware) is here:
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~aycock/
It's very encouraging to see more teachers using OpenBSD as an educational resource. I wish the CS courses I took focused on more useful & contemporary real world examples (courses using PDP-11's were just a little too arcane when I was an undergraduate IMHO).
I'd be interested to see student feedback on this experience and whether it inspired anyone to get more involved with OpenBSD."
Of course the code is better, you're preaching to the choir man. Calgary, what a coincidence.
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If there's any student of that class reading this, would you please post your notes as I'm very interested in reading them.
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Let's take a parallel example: as a molecular biologist, like thousands of my collegues, I have the training and resources to produce hundreds of potentially-dangerous bacterial or viral pathogens. Does this mean that I run around dumping these things into waterways and salad bars? Of course not. My understanding of these organisms has made me a better scientist, though, just as giving serious study to computer viruses will almost certainly help to make tomorrow's computer science grads better at their jobs.
Anyway. I just wanted to say kudos to Dr. Aycock; his courage in the face of adversity (and not to mention his support of OpenBSD) are admirable.
Hrmm. This was slightly off topic, and I have a feeling that I just re-kindled a flame war. Have at 'er.
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