No comment :) -- Titus Brown, [email protected]
> On Jan 24, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Jory Schossau <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll take funniest and pedagogically useful for my flub at UW teaching with > Titus Brown. > I tasked the students with a few shell problems, last of which was to combine > knowledge of wildcards and basic piping to list only the directories in the > current path. This was a problem I came up with on the fly, not realizing how > difficult it actually was and not knowing ls -d yet myself! Everyone made > many good attempts learning along the way and expected a bind-blowing answer. > But all I had to say was "It was a trick question!" Luckily someone in the > room knew ls -d and we all learned something. I suspect Titus was just amused > by my situation and wanted to see how I dealt with it :) > >> On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Greg Wilson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Really enjoying this discussion, but it's got me wondering: what was the >> best (funniest or most pedagogically useful) error you ever made in front of >> a class? Or saw someone else make? >> >> cheers, >> Greg >> >> -- >> Dr Greg Wilson >> Director of Instructor Training >> Software Carpentry Foundation >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
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