# [2022.04.29] Docker for Education

It looks like first I will die, and only then the university will try
to install all packages I need for the autumn course on recommender
systems. As soon as I started teaching data science to adults, I
relied on virtualisation. First, it was VMWare, and it was a real
pain in the ass. Then I moved to Docker, which was top-notch until
the students had to install virtual machines on (old) Windows and
macOS. Last year, I used Binder, and it worked like a charm.
Unfortunately, if you want to do anything computationally expensive,
you need to pay for a thicker cloud server. We will see how it
evolves this year. In general, I think enrolling students in Master
programs for AI, ML, DS, and whatever is fashionable and then herding
them into a classroom with no workstations, two power sockets,
constantly breaking snail-slow WiFi, and a bring-your-own-device zoo
should result in massive firings of people who (dis)organised that
bullshit. Previously, I'd say it's Russian style. Now I know it seems
to be universal.