During last weekends in Shanghai (Sep. 23 - 24), university Operating
System/Unix Programming/C Programming teachers were trained with the
latest Solaris/OpenSolaris technology and the Sun Studio IDE. Richard
McDougall, the author of "Solaris Internals" books gave the Solaris
Internals tutoring to these professors and he was extremely popular to
them. Along with Richard, 4 China professors delivered tutoring on
Solaris Courses Plugin for OS and Solaris System Programming. We have
installed 60 Solaris machines so that all teachers finished the labs on
his individual machine installed with Solairs 10 Update 2 and Sun Studio
11.
Below is the agenda for this training:
Day 1 AM:
Welcome by Hosting Institute, Prof. You Jinyuan
OpenSolaris and Solaris Internals, Richard McDougall
Day 1 PM:
Solaris Lecturing Courses Plugin for OS, Prof. Chen Xiangqun
Solaris Lab Courses Plugin for OS, Doc. Zhao Xia
Day 2 AM:
Sun Studio Intro and Labs, Doc. Wang Hua
Solaris System Programming, Prof. Sun Weizhen
Day 2 PM:
Solaris System Programming Labs, Doc. Wang Hua
Panel Discussion: How to integrate Solaris/OpenSolaris and Sun Studio to
university courses
All the teachers received the following materials / gifts during the
training:
OpenSolaris Starter Kit DVD (localized version)
Solaris 10 Update 2 SAID DVD for x86/x64
Solaris 10 Red Bible (published by Publishing House of Electronics Industry)
Solaris System Programming (localized version, published by Publishing
House of Machinery Industry)
All the Presentation materials
A T-Shirt
During the Panel Discussion in the afternoon of Day 2, we gave
introduction to the following topics:
Sun Academic Initiative
Special Discount on SCSA for College Students
Special Initiative to Promote Solaris/OpenSolaris in University OS Classes
Special Initiative to Promote Sun Studio in University Unix/C
Programming Classes
The teachers were very interested in these programs. They all believed
that these will help them a lot in their actual teaching. When being
asked whether they are willing to use Solaris in their OS class, most of
them happily said yes. They also believe Sun Studio will be popular in students who will take the Lab courses on Solaris. We are currently working on the survey stats, and will share
with you when the results are available.