Alasdair wrote:
Next semester I'd like to try to use Sage in my cryptography class
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My experience with students using Linux is less than positive; many feel horribly out of their comfort zone when not in a Windows environment. So I'd like (for file handling, saving and retrieving files etc) the students to be as much of a Windows setting as possible.
Would the best solution not be to increase your students understanding of Linux and so increase their comfort zone, rather than fit around their current comfort zone? Learning A so you can learn B is a quite basic fact of eduction process. Certainly at the university where I worked, people often had to learn Unix in order to do a task.
One would assume students studying cryptology would be reasonably intelligent, and able to grasp Linux. Like it or not, it is quite a common platform, and you would do your students a good service by providing education on it. There is plenty of stuff on the web for Linux newbies.
Given some of the computers dual boot linux, you may find your computer centre runs courses on Linux.
There are other options of course - install it on a server. But in the long term, an understanding of Linux is well worth while particularly for those involved in technical fields.
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