Developing a .NET Course
As a student ambassador one of my objectives for the year is to get my campus more involved with .NET. As for student organizations most technical ones in the past have just floundered, as of right now I have 50 members in mine it is is constantly growing, but I want to do more. Many of the members of the GV.NET Users Group have never seen nor touched .NET until now and some students just don't have that drive to explore certain things on their own. Unfortunately I don't like to see this, but it's the truth of the matter. I have brought up the possibility of teaching a .NET course as part of the curriculum next year, but it doesn't appear that is likely to happen.
I figure where there's a will there's a way... I proposed to my department chair, what if I took an independent study next semester and worked with one of the professors to prepare a course centered around .NET, with the plan to teach it next winter. At first he was skeptical, but after a few minutes of coaxing him I think I may have convinced him, of what a good idea this would be and so GVSU may be on its way toward its .NET class ever.