Sat, 26 Sep 2009
Observations on Teaching Newbies to Use a Shell
I've been teaching Linux/Unix Fundamentals courses recently, and thought I'd share some observations about students - some that surprised me. The course I teach is very command line intensive; while the individual student workstations are setup with graphical environments (KDE), the course can be taught and the concepts learned from a console.
Some of the students I teach are absolute beginners to Linux or Unix, so they have never typed a command into a shell environment before. A lot of the other students' last experience with a command line was some exposure to MS-DOS that is now a faint memory.
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