Curtin University - Distributed Applications
Today we had the final session on the Distributed Applications workshop, which was held by Nick Randolph and myself at Curtin University.
Regardless of the fact that our first day (tuesday) was a technological disaster, today was pretty great - the VMWare images were set up just right and we could concentrate on taking the students through our material.
We had a good turnout and the students where very enthusiastic about the workshop and the feedback we've gotten has been great.
Its good to see Curtin taking this initiative, being completely aware that what is being taught is not necessarily what the industry is using today. So hats off for Curtin for this.
Even though it was a saturday, and i'm sure many can envision doing something a little more exciting than sitting in a class room, it went really really well.
We didn't go into any very advanced topics but I feel we covered enough to get them started.
I wish the students all the best and hope they get a taste for the life of a geek.