Tutorial: Wargames: Part 1

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Originally posted here by mikem0327
You are way better than my computer science teacher. Hes so paranoid about everything. He wont even let us access the internet to play games or whatever. To pass our time we have to play solitaire and after a while it gets old fast. Even playing solitaire is kinda pushing it to him. He gets mad at us for using the command line to compile a java program.

Cant wait for the rest.

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I'm sure MsM doesn't let her students do that either. This was an assignment for the class which makes it different. Most teachers won't let you play online games unless they are bad teachers.

Seems like this is going to be a great tutorial. It seems that way so far. I would love to have a course taught like you do. Too bad though. Its always fun with a group of friends though. Im eagerly awaiting the next parts

PeacE
-BoB

wow awesome tutorial Ms.M i can't wait for the rest, by the way what university do you teach at?

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Originally posted here by Jehnny
MsMittens: Do you mind PMing me what school you teach at? I'm going to be going to college this coming year, and was wondering if you taught at one of the schools I might be applying. :)

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I'm at Seneca College in Toronto. I don't mind this being public as some of the articles I've written for JUPM indicate the College. We don't offer degrees --- yet. I have found out however that we've gotten through our first hurdle for creating an applied degree on Network Security -- a "Bachelor of Information Technology and Security" or "Bachelor of Applied Technology and Security" (we're still deciding on BATS or BITS -- personally I'm more partial to BITS :D). The Applied Degree, when implemented, would be a hands on degree with emphasis on networking (and little emphasis on programming). IDS, Honeypots, Firewalls, Security Policies, etc. would all be courses.

I've never understood why teachers do that -- lock everything down. My role as a teacher is to encourage students to be productive and creative. I'm not perfect. I suck at programming but I understand programming and how say a C, perl or PHP script works (I'm actually not too bad with PHP). I think some teachers are afraid to show that they are flawed in their knowledge. What they forget is that they need to drive students to want to learn. A teacher doesn't need to be an expert in their "field" but an expert at creating an environment so the students want to be experts in the field.

First of all great job. You sound like an awsome teacher, and i would love to have one of you classes. Second i think it was asked but do you have have seminars ??? and if you do what are the dates. thks

No.. unfortunately we don't have individual seminars at this point. We do have an Open Source Symposium that's held every fall so that's the closest we get. Perhaps if we get the degree going we might do some seminars. :)

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I've never understood why teachers do that -- lock everything down. My role as a teacher is to encourage students to be productive and creative. I'm not perfect. I suck at programming but I understand programming and how say a C, perl or PHP script works (I'm actually not too bad with PHP). I think some teachers are afraid to show that they are flawed in their knowledge. What they forget is that they need to drive students to want to learn. A teacher doesn't need to be an expert in their "field" but an expert at creating an environment so the students want to be experts in the field.

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rant
In the United States they are too busy beating the students into submission. Where they are stripped of their individuality. Making them all mindless zombies, so they may better serve their corporate masters.

Schools should teach our children how to think, not what to think.
/rant

Sorry to hijack the thread. I admire your teaching techniques, and I wish you we're in the U.S. so I might attend some of your classes. I'd actually come to your class ready to learn. Instead of staying up all night playing a RPG, and sleeping in your class.

Thanks again for the tutorial. Good luck on your applied degree hurdles.

Thanks, What exactly is an open source symposium, not sure if ive heard of that. Let me know if you start having seminars i would interested in attending. I was also wondering if you had any security papers published.

http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/se...1321_3111171_1 <-- article on the Open Source Symposium.

I haven't had a chance to do some in-depth research on items yet to have any sec papers published. That might change for next semester. There's some ip spoofing ideas I need to work on in a lab and might be worthwhile to publish it as a formal paper.

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Originally posted here by dopeydadwarf
Instead of staying up all night playing a RPG, and sleeping in your class.

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LOL.. Actually, I teach a course on network game administration (you build a game using LAMP) and homework is to play games. :D