Archived Courses Available
Listed below are the online courses LinuxChix hosted prior to 2013. Courses were conducted between 2002 and 2012.
Most courses took place on the LinuxChix Courses mailing list, and the full discussions surrounding each course -- including the lessons, questions from students, and problems solved -- can be seen in the list archives. Discussion links here take you to the very beginning of the course, but discussion continues throughout the course, often spanning many months. If there are no discussion links, the course was not conducted on the Courses mailing list.
Programming
- Introduction to C programming
- Description: This course is a combination of two C courses conducted in the same year.
- Instructors: Mary & others, K. W. Melvin
- Year: 2002
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Kernel Hacking
- Description: Learn how to write and debug Linux kernel code
- Instructors: Val Henson and Sonja Krause-Harder
- Year: 2002
- Mailing List: No archived discussion
- Spanish translation
- Introduction to Perl programming #1
- Description: The course will roughly follow the Learning Perl book
- Instructors: Alice Wood, Dan Richter
- Year: 2003
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Introduction to Perl programming #2
- Description: This course is an introduction to Perl.
- Instructors: Dan Richter
- Year: 2005
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Beginning Programming in Python
- Description:
- Instructors: Akkana Peck
- Year: 2011
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Also available as text files (external link)
Using Linux
Life skills
- Computing Careers
- Description: A series of posts from LinuxChix about their computing careers.
- Instructors: Multiple
- Year: 2005
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Running a Small Business
- Description: A guide to starting and managing your own business
- Instructors: Carla Schroder
- Year: 2002
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Spineful Living
- Description: The title I really wanted for this course was "how-not-to-be-a-doormat-but-instead-a-confident-person-who-gets-what-she-wants-and-doesn't-waste-half-her-life-kicking-herself-for-being-a-spineless-wuss." Which is a bit awkward, so instead I'm going to call it "Spineful Living," which I hope conveys the same message.
- Instructors: Carla Schroder
- Year: 2007
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
Partial courses
Sometimes a course doesn't quite get off the ground, because the instructor suddenly gets too busy or for other reasons. But even a partial course can have useful information in it.
- C Programming for Absolute Beginners
- Description: Introductory C programming
- Instructors: Carla Schroder
- Year: 2012
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Debian Packaging
- Description:
- Instructors:
- Year: 2007
- Mailing List: No archived discussion
- Firewalls
- Description: This tutorial will comprise of designing and implementing a security infrastructure for a small company. The basic concepts will scale up to an enterprise or down to a single host.
- Instructors: Devdas Bhagat
- Year: 2004-2005
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Networking
- Description: The goal of this course is to network multiple home PCs, share files between them and to enable them to all connect to the internet.
- Instructors: Hamster
- Year: 2003
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Programming Basics
- Description: Basic programming concepts
- Instructors: Sonja Krause-Harder
- Year: 2002
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Python
- Description: Python programming
- Instructors: Sue Stones
- Year: 2002
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Ruby
- Description: Ruby programming
- Instructors: Laurel
- Year: 2005
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Statistics and R
- Description: Statistics and the R project for statistics and data visualization: http://www.r-project.org/
- Instructors: A. Mani, Anne-Laure Buisson
- Year: 2009-10
- Mailing List: Archived discussion
- Using PostgresQL
- Description: A course in the use of the database management system, Postgresql. Although much less popular than its cousin, MySQL, it is, in fact, more robust, more powerful, and often faster. We'll cover installation, server administration, command-line client use, as well as remote connections via web and ODBC.
- Instructors: Michelle Murrain
- Year: 2007-2008
- Mailing List: Archived discussion