Linux Education
ACC has two UNIX courses that are Linux-based that you might find useful. For example, UNIX II teaches many of the skills needed to become an entry-level Linux System Administrator. There are four sections of UNIX I which provide an introduction to Linux in the Spring, 2008 semester. Courses are offered at different campuses, days and times including Distance Learning. If you have questions about either of these courses, you can contact Prof. Michael Martino by e-mail or go to www.austincc.edu/mmartino to see a syllabus and some other course information. Registration ends on January 9.
You can see all the Computer Studies courses offered in the Spring semester at:
http://www3.austincc.edu/schedule/s208s/cois208sf.htm
Some courses have pre-reqs and some courses or sections may be cancelled for low enrollment. If you’re new to ACC, talk to an Advisor. For Computer Studies, call the Computer Studies office, 113 Rio Grande Campus (12th & Rio Grande Sts) at (512) 223-3185 and ask for Mary or leave a message and a callback number.
Austin Community College offers the best education at the best price in Austin
Unfortunately my neighborhood is "out of district".
The Education Portal lists 10 quick and easy courses on linux that are online and free!
for example:
Professor Norm Matloff of the University of California at Davis offers a wonderful Unix and Linux Tutorial Center that contains detailed text on every topic imaginable. Tutorials are free to students and non-students alike. They can be accessed directly from the website without registration.
Those look like good links, especially for beginners. I will have to check out the more advanced sections and see if I can learn something myself.
I'm running through them right now myself. I'll let you know which ones work the best.
My last job had me using Linux but I never really got to learn much. I often just asked one of the Linux gurus how to do something and saved the command or script in a text doc in case I needed it later. I found that my biggest problem was that I didn't use it enough and couldn't remember the simple commands.
As far as Mike Martino, he is a pretty cool guy. I had him for what had to have been the most boring computer class in the entire universe. It was called Operating Systems and it dealt mostly with main frame type systems. However, Mike made the class fun even if it wasn't very interesting to me.
Valerie Dennis
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How about the OpenCourseWare stuff from MIT (see http://ocw.mit.edu/ )?
Have you gone to any of the four local Linux user groups here in the Austin area, to talk to them and see what they recommend? What about the BSD, Open Source, non-denominational Unix, and Unix system admins groups?
There's lots of resources on these kinds of topics here in the Austin area, but you do have to have at least some concept of where to look.
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Thank you for that information. I have not checked out much. When I went to ACC I was taking some of everything every semester and that was tough keeping it all straight. I'm working on CSS right now and will switch to Linux after. Just knowing there are resources out there that the "regular old person" can use it helpful.
Valerie Dennis
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vcd0826
Blog: http://thinking.ivalerie.com