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Title: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: dammy on January 24, 2006, 12:18:51 AM

Piyush Khengar, lecturer at Kings College, is now aiming his undergraduate CS students at AROS.

Kings College's Lecturer, Piyush Khengar, has given a new assignment to some of his undergraduate students, AROS developement.

His post can be read here (http://aros-exec.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1275&forum=2&post_id=10450#forumpost10450).

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: spihunter on January 24, 2006, 12:48:52 AM

I wish my college professors were that cool.

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: bloodline on January 24, 2006, 08:06:12 AM

Nice one!!

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: justthatgood on January 24, 2006, 10:58:59 AM

I know that save from a few liberal arts colleges and some very very small technical colleges, not many of the professors in Indiana would do this.

As we rank neer 48th or 49th out of our states in edukashun (yeah anywear near 50 is bad), only the smartist pee-ple go to kollage. Of thoze people most of theem get fed windowz stuff.

"Eye kan't spel. Reel programmars dont knead to no how two speel. Eye rool bekause eye em a produkt of the Endiana publik educashun sistim" 8-)

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: adonay on January 24, 2006, 05:48:12 PM

the students there get a nice challange they might even stick with aros afterwords something that is just plain positive

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: Cyberus on January 25, 2006, 06:58:56 AM

Quote

I wish my college professors were that cool.

I went to King's for four years, does that make me cool by association? ;-);-)

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: Samuar on January 25, 2006, 11:03:30 AM

Good stuff. I wish the University of Manchester would do something similar.

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: wonea on January 25, 2006, 11:07:22 AM

Right on!  Giving me ideas for my final project!  An AROS project!  Still I'm only in my first year!

Got an old pc coming in off ebay, so I can run AROS, and start dabbling in the development!

In Liverpool John Moores University.

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: spihunter on January 25, 2006, 02:59:22 PM

@Cyberus

Whatever gets you through the day man! :-D  :-D

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: bloodline on January 25, 2006, 08:07:38 PM

@Cyberus

King's scum!!!! I'm a UCL boy :-D

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: boing on January 26, 2006, 06:13:03 PM

I can't say I like his introductory paragraph. In fact the Amiga still has many features that are unavailable on most machines, regardless of cards installed. Sprites, color compressed video modes, copperlists, multiple playfiends, genlocking...

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: boing on January 26, 2006, 06:18:35 PM

>This means that any C source file that was written for
>the original Amiga platform should compile and run with
>no modifications on AROS.

There's a lot of C stuff in the Fish library.  Anyone?  Especially the stuff that uses Sprites, Playfields and Copperlists.

Heh.

Title: Re: Kings College Aims At AROS
Post by: itix on January 26, 2006, 07:47:48 PM

@boing

Uhm, you should update your hardware catalogy.