[Lilug] What is the perfect meeting topic?

[Chuck Reeves]

I know I have not been to a LILUG meeting in a really long time.  I can
give my "How to Use SELinux" now that I'm working 100% remote.

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:32 PM Lee Wilbur <leew at multiverseit.com> wrote:

> I'd say separate the topics. I'd love an intro to C/C++ session too. One
> one month and then one a month or two later. (Don't actually mean next
> month, not that is object to that)
>
> *Sent from my LG G5, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone*
>
> ------ Original message------
> *From: *Jorg Kewisch
> *Date: *Fri, May 12, 2017 11:28 AM
> *To: *LILUG Mailing List;
> *Cc: *
> *Subject:*Re: [Lilug] What is the perfect meeting topic?
>
>
> On 05/11/2017 10:14 PM, Lee Wilbur wrote:
> >> What else would people like to learn about?
> >
> > Make the meetings "classes" - I'd find it VERY useful have a Python or
> Ruby or other language "101" that treats me like I know nothing of this
> scripting language and has small projects we can build along with an
> instructor - "everyone, build a script that pings a set of IPs listed in a
> file" - now follow along... practical lesson(s) that can start people
> actually doing as opposed to knowing what can be done...
> >
> > My .02
> > -Lee
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> I was thinking about that for a while. It might be good for me to get
> some teaching experience with a well meaning audience.
>
> I program in C/C++ and PYTHON, which combines the best of two worlds.
> Which language to teach? C has a bunch of important concepts (arrays,
> pointers) which PYTHON is hiding from you. So learning C gives you a
> better education, because you understand what python is doing for you.
> PYTHON is much more useful to the average IT girl or guy after the class.
>
> I wonder if one could do both in one class and not confuse everybody.
> What do you think?
>
> I could also give a talk about backyard beekeeping (a little but
> off-topic).
>
> Jorg
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