Thread: PSU professor created coursework?

At West '08 there was talk of a professor at PSU who was, or did, create course content for potential distribution to other schools, NGOs or where ever.  What became of this material?  If it exists, where does it live?  Has there been any success stories 'selling' it to universities or elsewhere?

Thanks,
Andrew Lardinois

On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 02:10 -0800, Andrew Lardinois wrote:
>
> At West '08 there was talk of a professor at PSU who was, or did,
> create course content for potential distribution to other schools,
> NGOs or where ever.  What became of this material?  If it exists,
> where does it live?  Has there been any success stories 'selling' it
> to universities or elsewhere?

My guess is that would have been Shapiro:

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~len/
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~len/386/
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~len/587/

Joshua D. Drake


> Thanks,
> Andrew Lardinois


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Joshua D. Drake escribió:
> On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 02:10 -0800, Andrew Lardinois wrote:
> >
> > At West '08 there was talk of a professor at PSU who was, or did,
> > create course content for potential distribution to other schools,
> > NGOs or where ever.  What became of this material?  If it exists,
> > where does it live?  Has there been any success stories 'selling' it
> > to universities or elsewhere?
>
> My guess is that would have been Shapiro:

That's what Greg Smith said a month ago:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2009-12/msg00028.php

Are we going to get the same question again on Jan. 15th?

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On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 02:10 -0800, Andrew Lardinois wrote:
>
> At West '08 there was talk of a professor at PSU who was, or did,
> create course content for potential distribution to other schools,
> NGOs or where ever.  What became of this material?  If it exists,
> where does it live?  Has there been any success stories 'selling' it
> to universities or elsewhere?

My guess is that would have been Shapiro:

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~len/
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~len/386/
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~len/587/

Joshua D. Drake


> Thanks,
> Andrew Lardinois


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I wrote to Len late last week, and just received this reply:

"The instructional material to which you
refer depends on a patch to the EXPLAIN facility that is not yet
complete because, according to my student, Tom Raney, who developed
the patch "The PG developer community was still plugging away working
out a machine readable version of explain last time I checked:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/msg01944.php.".
When it is working, I will announce it to you and the appropriate
mailing lists."

So for the time being that about sums it up for the time being.

Happy 2010,
Andrew

On 12/30/09 9:50 PM, Andrew Lardinois wrote:
> I wrote to Len late last week, and just received this reply:
>
> "The instructional material to which you
> refer depends on a patch to the EXPLAIN facility that is not yet
> complete because, according to my student, Tom Raney, who developed
> the patch "The PG developer community was still plugging away working
> out a machine readable version of explain last time I checked:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-07/msg01944.php.".
> When it is working, I will announce it to you and the appropriate
> mailing lists."

FWIW, this feature is already committed for 8.5.

--Josh Berkus