Shell access for Instructors and their Students

[Stephen Jones]

The SDF Public Access UNIX system (http://sdf.lonestar.org) offers a free
shell environment for educators in K-12 as well the as the college level.

This free membership is open to both instructors and teacher assistants.
It has been primarily used as an alterative for lab exercises and
demonstrations where campus systems may be not properly equiped or
too restrictive.

Students create their accounts themselves by logging in as 'new' and
instructors can add or remove them from a classroom list.

Students who are added by an active instructor have immediate access to:

- 80mb of disk storage
- gcc, perl, python, ruby, fortran and lisp programming languages
- UNIX editors such as ed, ex, vi, pico, nano, emacs and ee
- MySQL database access
- Website services http://(studentname).freeshell.org
- Website development - cgi via perl, python, php and ruby
- Inbound sftp, scp and ftp service
- Much more

For further information and shell access, telnet to 'sdf.lonestar.org'
and login as 'new' to create an account.

Instructors interested in setting up a classroom should provide a syllabus
in text format to 'clas...@sdf.lonestar.org'

Current places of learning that actively use SDF as a virtual classroom:

Tennesse Tech, TN
Barstow Community College, CA
Columbia University, New York
Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire
CEC Middle College, Colorado
Granada University, Spain
University of Texas @ Austin
MIT, MA
DeVry
Texas A&M, College Station
Brookhaven Community College, Farmers Branch, Texas
Collin County Community College, Texas
Stanford University, CA
University of Washington, Seattle