[ale] windows to Linux user conversion training guide

[Jim Kinney]

nope. No pico, nano, or other tool that provides visual prompting.

The idea is to force a paradigm shift the same way as learning a language -
total immersion.

The general expectation is people can learn. Computers are currently used
to take over the thinking process instead of supplement it. There are many
areas where computer use is great, web browser being one - it enhances and
make possible things that were not possible before. But many places,
computer use makes people dumber and lazy. Just people _can_ learn arcane
crap like sports stats and movie trivia and such, they _can_ learn some
basic commands at a prompt so they are not totally at the mercy of a gui. I
reserve that judgment as not valid for Mac fanatics :-)




On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would for Windows users, pico or nano be a good one to start with?
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > http://jimkinney.us/2.%2Bbasic%2Beveryday%2Bcommands.html
> >
> > Type the command cat /etc/filesystems - >> /tmp/foo. When you get the
> blank
> > line, start entering text. A new line is given when you press "Enter". To
> > stop entering text press "Ctrl-C".
> >
> >
> > While a Ctrl-C (interrupt) seems to work, wouldn't Ctrl-D (eof) be more
> > appropriate? Interrupt seems like it'd be dependent on implementation
> > details of what caching happens or something like that. Say, if you were
> > piping to some other command rather than redirecting to foo. I was
> actually
> > a bit surprised to see it work.
> >
> > You said feedback is welcome--hope this isn't too nit-picky.
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> > To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 7:41:33 AM
> > Subject: [ale] windows to Linux user conversion training guide
> >
> >
> > When I was working at another location, one of the tasks I got to do was
> to
> > write a training guide to take a windows user and make them a command
> line
> > junkie in Linux. It was a fun project and the students that used it were
> > enthusiastic about the guide.
> >
> > It's been far too long, but I finally extracted the bulk of that guide
> and
> > put it up on my site for others to see. Feedback is welcome!
> >
> > It's not complete and due to the removal of much very specific stuff from
> > where it was written it's a bit clunky now. also the migration away from
> a
> > good but proprietary wiki (Atlassian Confluence) to plain html is less
> than
> > stellar. I plan to do more from a docbook version for later html
> publication
> > as soon as I can.
> >
> > the guide is at http://jimkinney.us for now.
> >
> > --
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> > James P. Kinney III
> >
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*Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain
at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail.
It won't fatten the dog.
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