How to teach OS

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In a message dated 3/4/2005 11:04:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, Zera William Holladay <zholla1 at xxxxxxx> writes:

>Hi, I have a pedagogical question.
>
>If you (a developer) were teaching a first level college course in
>operating systems with the goal of (eventually) transforming each student
>into a *BSD developer, then how would you teach the course?
>Specifically, what programming assignments would you have?  What material
>would you cover?

I thought the point of college was to prepare students for
PAYING jobs?