Re: Teaching Linux this summer

[Doug Loss <dloss@csrlink.net>]

Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Daniel Glenn wrote:
> >
> > Curriculum outline so far:
> >
> > 1. Being a basic User.
> >       Logging in, getting around, seeing who is online, the
> >       home directory, starting X, reading Mail, access
> >       privileges.
> >       * This is probably where I need to be reminded
> >         of all the simple things you can do as a user.
> 
> I would include here some basic shell studies, like:
> - simple pipes, environment variables, dot-files;
> - simple in-line for loops;
> Also, some kind of automation with cron/at should be valuable, imho.
> And, as a must item, how to use man pages, infos, HOWTOS, docs, ...
> 
[...]
> why not some easy perl cgi?
> 
While it's not specific to web work, I think that some exposure to
programming would be a good thing.  Mario's ideas about shell exposure
(including simple scripting, I'd think) and easy perl sound about
right.  If I were you I'd also look into Python, as that may be easier
for beginning programmers to follow.

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