From: cybersean3000 at domain yahoo.com
Date: Thu 27 Sep 2001 - 11:50:03 IST
I bet I could crank out a couple of newbie users or newbie admins in 3
days (with an espresso machine)
-=Sean=-
On 27 Sep 2001, at 11:42, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> I completely agree.
>
> As part of the trainee program, us boyz have to run various different
> courses on all flavours of OS.
> We tried to do a linux course in three days but its just impossible.
>
> What we did do was a one week fundamentals course. vi, file systems
> structure etc, no gui's at all, telnet, shells - bash korn etc. Pretty basic
> stuff but essential before going into gui stuff.
>
> Actually another week we covered a few unices,
> openserver/unixware7.11/linux.
> 2.5 days each. And at the end we made a comparison between them.
> This may seem insane but it is a good introduction for a total newbie.
>
> One can actually cover most other stuff in a further week or less but its
> kinda pushing it - doable though.
>
> Just get your notes right. Handouts, slides and stick rigoursly to the
> schedule.
> They will not remember everything, but they shall have an overview.
>
> Then run a more advanced course and charge them again :)
>
> So to recap (and you will need the last day/afternoon for this)
> Course 1, unix fundamentals
> 1: basic shit no X stuff - learn the basic shell(s) (not scripting - this is
> for an advanced course)
> Make sure they understand the way the shell reads the command. If they have
> only experienced DOS before, then they will automatically presume that each
> application has its own options and the shell processes will go over their
> heads.
> You will need the guts of a week for this.
> 2. 3 days to cover the GUI stuff
> Course 2:
> Shell scripting and more advanced sysadmin things.
>
> A little note, do the course for your partner or anyone really, ideally a
> newbie and time everthing. Else you will not possibly be able to cover
> everything on your list, also you will find yourself jumping around the
> place.
> Tell them there is an exam at the end and its closed book, they will pay
> more attention.
>
> Hope this is of some meager help.
> CW
>
> -----------------------
> I was asked about this once and I ran screaming from it. There's NO way you
> can present this material in 3 days - you'd be hard pressed even to skim
> over it in an introductory way. It simply takes much more than 3 days to
> make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
>
>
>
>
> Niall
>
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