[ILUG] Suggestions for Additional Material for Linux Sys Admin Course - LAMP?

[Cormac McClean]

Hi,

Thanks to all who responded with suggestions for additional material for 
the Linux Sys Admin course. It would appear that the PHP/MySQL 
suggestion is not high on the list of priorities.

 From the point of view of scripting, I took a different tack this year 
in that I focused exclusively on shell scripting. In previous years I 
have included either perl or python as the scripting language, but 
students object to "yet another programming language", as they already 
learn Java and/or C++ and possibly other programming languages (such as 
assembly) in their other subjects. I reverted to shell scripting this 
year because it is tied in closely to the shell commands they are 
learning and they don't feel like they are being forced to learn another 
programming language. Having said that, they find it very difficult 
and/or hate it, judging on the attempts to scripting questions in their 
practical assessments.

What would the general view be on this issue? Shell script versus 
perl/python?

Thanks again.

Regards,
Cormac.


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