1. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institut of Robotics Use of the Internet in the Teaching Process Martin Terbuc Smetanova ulica 17, Maribor, Slovenia url: www.ro.feri.uni-mb.si e-mail: martin.terbuc@uni-mb.si

2. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institut of Robotics Overview • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI • Use of the Internet in the Teaching Process • Microsoft vs. GNU Linux • GNU Linux

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4. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institut of Robotics Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI " Organisation " Study 1 University Degree 1 Proffesional Higher Education 1 Master 1 Ph.D.

5. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dean: Prof. Dr. Ivan Rozman Institute of AutomationInstitute of Electronics Institute of Power Engineering Institute of Robotics Institute of Computer Science Institute of Informatics Institute of Mathematics & Physics

6. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering - University Degree Automation - Production Automation - Process Automation Electronics - Industrial Electronics - Computer Electronics Power Engineering - Electrical Power Engineering - Electric Controls - Electromagnetics Mechatronics - Communications - Regulations - Instrumentation - Actuation - Embedded Systems Electrical Engineering with Economics - Automation - Electronics - Power Engineering - Telecommunications * Credit study ECTS * Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

7. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering - Proffesional Higher Education Automation - Production Automation - Robotics Electronics - Industrial Electronics - Computer Electronics Power Engineering - Electrical Power Engineering - Systems Technology - Structural Technology

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9. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Graduates in 2000 20 Masters theses 10 PhD Dissertations

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11. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Use of the Internet in the Teaching Process " Introduction " Including of Internet into the teaching process " Creating WebPages " WebPages of Institute of Robotics " Conclusion

12. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Introduction " Classical methods to serve matter of study 1 Chalk and blackboard " Technical helps 1 diaprojectors 1 overhead projectors 1 computers 1 VCRs 1 episciopes " Internet 1 available from everywhere with any browser 1 multimedia,...

13. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Including of Internet into the teaching process " Step by step 1 research organisation 1 projects, work 1 hardware and software companies 1 searching in the libraries 1 individual use of e-mail and use of newsgroups 1 virtual laboratories 1 actual experiments over the Internet " Help for students by study, not distance learning

14. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Creating WebPages " Attractive pages 1 presentation of the matter " Iterative process 1 start with a idea 1 improved every semester " Form 1 not complex navigation 1 not to big documents (modems) 1 common form

15. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Creating WebPages " Tools 1 GENTLE WBT 1... 1 access time 1 computing power 1 classical WebPages HTML documents

17. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics WebPages of Institute of Robotics " Informations about our institute " Abstracts about lectures Instructions for laboratory work " 1999/2000 unified presentation pages for subjects 1 clear presentation 1 simple achievement of knowledge " www.ro.feri.uni-mb.siwww.ro.feri.uni-mb.si "Education" -> list of subjects -> "bookmarks" learning

18. (Control techniques) (Winter semester 1999/2000) (Assistant) (Lecturer) (Important messages) (Related links: Robotics, servodrives,...) (Requirements for the exam) (Contents) (Program) (Homeworks, exercises) (Messages) (Marks) (Starting page)

19. (Contents) (Program) (Homeworks, exercises) (Messages) (Marks) (Starting page) (Program of work in the semester) (Week) (Lectures) (Exercises) (Notes) (Colloquiums)

20. (Contents) (Program) (Homeworks, exercises) (Messages) (Marks) (Starting page) (Homeworks) (Computer ex.)(MATLAB files) (Laboratory ex.) (No.) (Computer ex.) (Contents) (Complete until) (Solutions) (Notes)

21. (Contents) (Program) (Homeworks, exercises) (Messages) (Marks) (Starting page) (MATLAB files) (Laboratory ex.) (No.)(Contents) (Complete until)(Notes)

22. (Contents) (Program) (Homeworks, exercises) (Messages) (Marks) (Starting page) (Messages) (Message) (Date)

23. (Contents) (Program) (Homeworks, exercises) (Messages) (Marks) (Starting page) (Student No.) (Colloquium I) (Colloquium II) (Homeworks) (Written exam) (Protocols) (Possible points) (Average)

26. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Conclusion " Students are prepared to use new media " We must teach them how to use it " Same approach during all years of study " Costs of the Internet access 1 classical material " Permanently maintenance

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28. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Microsoft vs. GNU Linux * Microsoft * GNU Linux * Why Linux? * Linux installation * Windows connectivity * Standard and scientific software * Real time * Conclusion

29. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Microsoft + Easy to use + Look good + We know it + Application - Expensive - Problems - Standards (Microsoft standars ie. Internet explorer) - Real time

30. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics GNU Linux - We don't know it - Problems + Stable + Free + Open (source code GPL) + Easy to use (GNOME, KDE,...) + Look good (GNOME, KDE,...) + Application (StarOffice, Latex, Lyx, Gimp, Matlab, Delphi,...) + Real time + UNIX like + POSIX

31. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Why Linux? * Almost all scientific applications run on Linux * It is stable * It is cheap * It runs on almost any hardware (ix86, ARM, Alpha, Sparc, Mips, PowerPC, H8, MC68HC11,...) * It is open source (You know what you get) *...

32. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Try Linux Different ways to Linux: * Install GNU Linux on your workstation and try it * Use Linux on the Linux Login Cluster * Different Linux distributions * Linux + DOS/Win can coexist happily on the same computer

33. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Linux installation Minimal Requirements: * x86 compatible computer (laptops !?) * 32 MB memory * 2 GB harddisk * Network connection Recommended Requirements: * Pentium III 400 MHz * 128 MB memory * 10 GB harddisk

34. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Overview of Linux services * multi tasking * multi user * WEB server * ftp server * SMB server * mail sever WEB webserver LTS Linux terminal server CUPS print server INST installation server LLC Linux login cluster NFS file server Linux Workstation NT Workstation Install Linux Print Try Linux Run applications on linux Acces files

35. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics NFS File system * network file system * access from everywhere * home directories * secure * client disk cache * individual access permissions to directories

36. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Windows NT/2000 connectivity * hoblink: Access Windows2000 terminal server from Linux * ntmount: Transfer files from Linux to NT network drive * smbmount: connect to and from MS 95, 98, ME, NT * vmware: Emulate another PC under Linux (i.e. running Windows)

37. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Standard Installation Software StarOffice-5.2 Word processing/ LaTeX2 Publishing lyx Typesetting Netscape, Opera Webbrowser Quanta HTML Editor Acrobat Reader PDF reader xpdf gcc C compiler gcs-g77 Fortran compiler

38. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Standard Installation Software Emacs enhanced text editors Xemacs Nedit Gimp paint program/image manipulation xv ntmount NT domain directory connection smbmount Hoblink Windows Terminal Server connectivity dosemu execution of dos and MS Windows programs wine. :

39. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Scientific (Math) Software Maple Analytic Math Mathematica Jacal Matlab Numeric Math Simulink Octave Scilab :

40. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Real time X Client X Server LINUX kernel Real time kernel Computer (PC) Hardware Aplications

41. University of Maribor Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - FERI Institute of Robotics Conclusion - MS Windows vs. GNU Linux " Windows runs Microsoft Office and lots of games is perceived to be easy to install and configure is notoriously unstable performs poorly crashes are frequent " Linux runs StarOffice and GNU programs scores of technical software and fewer games can be tricky to install and configure is rock solid performs impeccably crashes are extremely rare

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