Hi Maxime, I just taught the shell material a couple of weeks ago and had the same question as you, so I'm glad you asked this and I'd be curious to hear how other people teach this.
I thought that saying that "/" would be the root directory for Nelle's computer would be super confusing to the learners because if you "cd /" you will NOT end up in the "root" of the downloadable lesson material, but on the root of your own filesystem. I ended up not following the lesson material for that initial part and instead demonstrated that on my own computer "/" stands for my root directory, and then we can see the "Users" directory on my own computer, "Applications", etc. Do other people treat this differently? Is it not actually as confusing as it sounds like it would be to follow the lesson material as written? Thanks, Emily On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Maxime Boissonneault < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm currently going through the Unix shell lesson to see how SWC teaches > it. > > I am wondering, the examples are made such that "/" is actually the root > of the dataset that you have users download initially, i.e. it is as if the > teacher had done a chroot into the downloaded directory structure. > > How do you explain to attendees that if they do "ls /", they will *not* > actually see what is given in the examples ? > > > > > -- > --------------------------------- > Maxime Boissonneault > Analyste de calcul - Calcul Québec, Université Laval > Ph. D. en physique > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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