Sponsored places for "geeky" kids on Linux online course

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - Sept. 29, 2013 - PRLog -- A number of free sponsored places will now be available for under-14 year olds on an innovative technical Linux course, announced founder Steve Brorens of GREP101.com

“Linux itself is free, and there are a plethora of “how-to” guides and YouTube videos available to young people that cover Linux", says GREP101’s founder Steve Brorens, but “too many technically-inclined young people are missing the opportunities because they don’t have a course or a tutor to provide the required structure”.

"Our course provides a structured, assisted, way to get comfortable with the Linux command line on a cloud-based server,” he explains, “but even though the course is one of the cheapest available, that's still a barrier for many kids and their parents".

He explained that the GREP101 course was aimed squarely at server-related skills, “the sort of skills you need to run your own Internet server, program a robot, drone controller or smart watch”, not something that all kids are capable of, or interested in - but that for some, “this is just the sort of extension to their learning that they crave”, and something that could set them up with valuable skills for the future.

Lessons are emailed to students each weekday, and they each have full administrative access to an internet-connected Linux server where they will do all their work.

Further details are available at: http://grep101.com/sponsered-courses/