> 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.
Last time that I taught this lesson I started showing the files at - ~ - / - /home/ - /home/my-user-name - /home/my-user-name/Desktop using one graphic user file navigation application (e.g. Nautilus, Finder, Windows Explorer) and after that I said "Now we are going to discovery this files from using the command line. For we all work with the same files we are going to work with the files at ~/Desktop/data/ that emulates the Nelle's HDD. ..." With this I could follow the lesson as it is. Cheers, Raniere
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