I'm certainly interested! I am working here on Geographical Information
Systems with PostgreSQL/PostGIS with the Minnesota MapServer, with a lot
of regular database work thrown in. PostgreSQL has great potential for
teaching databases and SQL, and when the native Windows port is ready,
it will also be ideal for smaller, individual teaching projects (e.g. at
home).
Jan Hartmann
Department of Geography
University of Amsterdam
jhart@frw.uva.nl
Gavin Sherry wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
>
>>I've given a talk in the 2002 honours lecture series at UWA about Postgres
>>and some of the things it can do. All of those guys were interested.
>>Especially since the deptartment does a lot of work in genetic algoriithms.
>
>
> Excellent. Can you put that talk online somewhere?
>
>
>>Tell me when you start working on a document - I'm happy to help. Since I'm
>>only just out of Uni, I'd like to write a set of possible assignments and
>>learning outcomes and how you can use postgres to support them.
>>
>>My girlfriend is a PhD student at UWA CS dept :) plus I won the honours
>>scholarship there a year or two back, so I can get interest from the dept,
>>including the databases lecturer. Might help for another point of view and
>>feedback.
>
>
> Excellent. Are there any other people involved in PostgreSQL and
> universities or educational institutions? If so we could put something
> together about experiences for the advocacy Web site.
>
>
>>That's tragic. Teaching kids to admin oracle is something you do in Tafe,
>>or an Oracle course, not a university. Anyway, what kind of course teaches
>>you about how to admin oracle as opposed to teaching you about ACID
>>properties, MVCC, distributed transactions and partitioning? Most of which
>>can be demonstrated with Postgres. We learnt about relational model,
>>algebra and calculus well before learning about SQL!
>
>
> Your interest in this is clearly the same as mine: Universities
> (should) teach concept not product. I'm disgusted that this is not the
> case.
>
> If other people are interested we could work on this in January when I am
> over your way, as discussed in private email.
>
> Gavin
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