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Lawrence A. vanderMeer (meer@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:

: I know how to find and kill runaway processes, and so do you.
: But how many 1st year students know how to get a process list, let alone
: realise that they have runaway processes that possibly exist after you
: disconnect.  It's just been my experience that people in their first (and
: even second) year CS students aren't very well versed in UNIX commands.

: In fact, I just asked a second year CS student if he knew how to get a process
: list and kill jobs....and he didn't.

Maybe there should be a first year once a week tutorial on UNIX and the 
net and all, so that we don't end up with master programmers who can't 
untar a file :)  Even if it was only a hand-out sheet with a bunch of 
"problems" like go find some software package on a ftp site and compile 
it, or list all the processing you are running when logged into an 
xterm..  Is this a good idea?

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