Courses

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One of the activities of LinuxChix is to run online courses on a variety of subjects. Courses are run on the Courses mailing list; subscribe to that list to participate.

A sampling of some of the present and past courses we've run:

Current Courses

Using PostgreSQL
Michelle Murrain

Past Courses

Spineful Living
Carla Schroder
GIMP
Akkana Peck
Tools for Participating in Free Software

Mary Gardiner
Linux Comands
Carla Schroder
Firewalls

Devdas Bhagat
C programming
Mary Gardiner
Kernel Hacking

Val Henson and Sonja Krause-Harder
Programming Basics

Sonja Krause-Harder and Karen Hall
Security

Raven Alder and Katie Bechtold
Basic Networking

Hamster
Unix File Systems

Meredydd Luff
Perl
Dan Richter

Using PostgreSQL

This course is 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 connections via web and ODBC and other topics.

This course is designed for people who are beginner to medium on database management systems, but are fairly comfortable with the command line, and feel comfortable installing and configuring software.

Advanced MySQL users who just want to get a feeling for Postgresql are welcome, as well, but there are definitely weeks you'll want to skip (like the weeks reviewing SQL, for instance.)

The course will start on November 19th, with lessons and exercises posted at the beginning of the week.

Subscribe to the courses list to join (topic [Postgresql]) if you aren't already on it: http://mailman.linuxchix.org/mailman/listinfo/courses

Also, there will be a moodle page: http://courses.linuxchix.org/course/view.php?id=5