I've just opened an issue on the workshop template repo [1] to discuss this. 
Please post you comments and possible solutions there.

Best,

Ivan

[1] https://github.com/swcarpentry/lesson-template/issues/233

El 07/05/2015, a las 09:36, Ivan Gonzalez <[email protected]> escribió:

> True. The best solution I found and what I do in workshops is:
> 
> - download a zip file that I put in the workshop's website with the Nelle's 
> filesystem, 
> - move it to the Desktop and unzip, (no need of CLI until here)
> - cd && cd Desktop takes you there from whatever you are in all OS.
> 
> This has the advantage of being able to see how you change the files using 
> the graphical interface. (Sometimes is a bit messy when people have 1000s 
> files in their Desktop already…)
> 
> Maybe we should add a link in the shell lesson to the files and explain this 
> in a callout box, so the solo learner can download the files easily? 
> Actually, we could do this also the Python and R lessons and have a dedicated 
> callout "Getting ready" at the end of index.md to sort this type of things 
> out. 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Ivan
> 
> El 07/05/2015, a las 09:12, Lex Nederbragt <[email protected]> 
> escribió:
> 
>> Nice!
>> 
>> But, there remains one challenge: when someone completely new to the unix 
>> shell wants to work through the material at 
>> http://swcarpentry.github.io/shell-novice/, they should ‘cd’ into the 
>> correct folder before they run the first ‘ls’ command. This is not covered 
>> in your post, and is something I generally see as a problem for 
>> self-learners - I have no good solution yet.
>> 
>> Lex
>> 
>>> On 05 May 2015, at 22:47, Daniel Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Everyone:
>>> 
>>> I have friends ask me about where to start learning R and Python all the 
>>> time.  I'm constantly googling and linking to the same SWC lessons and 
>>> posts.  I've written a small blog post for people on how they can go though 
>>> SWC and DC material on their own.
>>> Might be of interest as a blog post for SWC, or a set of 
>>> meta-meta-meta-documentation for the website.
>>> 
>>> http://chendaniely.github.io/blog/2015/05/05/getting-started-with-data-science/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> - Dan
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