I recall that QUT received a donation of XBox (the original ones) consoles as an incentive for the curriculum in the recently deployed (circa January 2007) games programming degree to include much of Microsoft’s XNA programming platform.

The majority of computer labs run Windows, however we do have a behemoth UNIX server (whether proprietary or open-source I’m not sure) which the engineering students make use of when programming C; and there are several large computer labs, which under the auspice of “data communications”, have been setup to triple-boot Windows XP, Windows 2000 (maybe 2003 these days) and the latest Fedora Core release.

Bearing in mind that I am now graduating; perhaps their open-source efforts are new over the last year or two and confined to first and second-year courses. However, while I was there I personally did not see any open-source teachings beyond the use of Fedora Core and a single unit of Linux System Administration. All of the programming technologies we used were proprietary and usually Microsoft.

Well done. you should be proud of your work on this — the graphs really lift the report — stats alone are useful — but the eye-catching presentation makes them more interesting — and hopefully this means more people will grok the value of this important report.

Cheers, Donna