>From experience (and depending on the group), students find the
"fashionable" stuff like php easy to learn - on their own in many cases so
you could "solve" the php issue by way of assignment etc. The only thing I
would add to your extensive list is firewalling and mail/virus scanning and
migrating software updates through an organization. On the other hand,
these are engineering students so how about some engineering applications
like scilab and qcad?
f.
On 12/11/06, Cormac McClean <cmcclean at ait.ie> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> As I have mentioned in previous emails to the list, I teach a course on
> Linux System Administration to 3rd Year Engineering students. As a
> result of a change in timetables, I find myself with time for additional
> material, and I was wondering if the many experts on the list (who
> recently proved invaluable in assisting me with a truculent Xen server!)
> might have some suggestions in this regard.
>> Students each have root access via the network to their own Debian
> virtual server (and standard GNU/Linux Desktop within the lab).
>> Here's what I cover in Semester I
> Part 1: GNU/Linux Basics
> 1. Introduction to System Adminitration, Operating Systems and GNU/Linux
> (UNIX and F/OSS).
> 2. Introduction to the GNU/Linux OS and Filesystem hierarchy.
> 3. GUI-Mode GNU/Linux with KDE.
> 4. Command-line Linux: command syntax, options, redirection.
> 5. System monitoring with df, du etc.
> 6. Shell scripting.
>> Part 2: System Administration
> 7. User and Group Administration, password security, password cracking,
> scripting.
> 8. Software Admininstration using APT and from source.
> 9. Networking and the client-server model: mudnames, NTP. Configuration
> files.
> 10. Samba and SWAT.
>> Semester II:
> Part 2: System Administration (continued)
> 11. Processes and Daemons.
> 12. NFS.
> 13. FTP (ProFTPd).
> 14. Apache.
> 15. Network troubleshooting.
> 16. Logs and swatch.
> 17. Backups.
> 18. Computer/Network Security, firewalls, IDS.
>>> I am thinking of including a section on web application development with
> PHP/MySQL. Start off installing some existing PHP/MySQL-based
> applications (phpBB2, wiki, blogs) and then spend 6 weeks teaching HTML
> and PHP where they would build their own web-based app. (Students'
> experience of web development in ther other subjects is using 3rd part
> tools such as Dreamweaver - they don't see any html at all. I find that
> when they get to their Final Year Projects they want to explore
> PHP/MySQL but are starting from scratch).
>> How useful do you think this would be to a Linux Sys Admin, or are there
> other items not covered that should be? Bear in mind that due to network
> restrictions I cannot include DNS, Mail Server or Web Proxy except as
> theoretical topics, and as much as possible I want the students to have
> practical experience of everything we cover.
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Your expert advice is, as always,
> greatly appreciated.
>> Regards,
> Cormac.
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