Just a quick comment from someone who is actually studying for LPIC-1 against the objectives. I approached the task much the same way as I approach the GNU C Library manual, as my core guidelines. What I've been doing when in need of guidance regarding order is to refer to major distro manuals, like openSUSE, Fedora, and Ubuntu. These manuals often represent concepts like grep and pipe in context of real-world use, which helps me in the way I learn concepts personally. Additionally, the order in which the user vs server manuals present information offers some guidelines to newbies as to what concepts may be more appropriate to study first.
I think the brief entry in the LPI FAQ hints there is no one way to study and I took that to heart when preparing on my end. Cheers. - CB Sent from my Motorola ATRIX™ 4G on AT&T -----Original message----- From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> To: lpi-examdev@lpi.org Sent: Tue, Feb 28, 2012 17:12:14 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: [lpi-examdev] Topic 103 has inappropriate subtopic order On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:43:26 +0100 Marc Baudoin <mbaud...@linagora.com> wrote: > > The point is, you are perfectly free to teach and/or study the > > materials in any order that makes sense for you. LPI does not > > dictate exactly how the training will advance, only that a graduate > > should know the subject matter of the topics once finished. > > And that's what I'm doing anyway. > > The problems I see is that trainees like (very much) to match > what they're studying to the official objectives (which is > perfectly legitimate) and it's much easier when the course and > the training materials are in the same order than the objectives. I'll give you an example from the days when I was delivering training: files Files are one single objective. I had to visit the topic of files 3 times in an LPIC-1 course to avoid confusing students: 1. just cover the idea that files exist and are in directories. Show them using "ls" or "ls -a" 2. do other stuff 3. cover owner and permissions. Now "ls -l" makes more sense 4. do more stuff 5. cover inodes, data blocks and how directories tie together. Now that mysterious 2nd column in "ls -al" finally makes sense. Nobody in their right mind would make that 3 objectives. But teaching it as one single atomic lump of information gives you confused students who are forced to battle with more advanced topics when they are still at the beginning. All would agree that is not good. The objectives are the end result, the destination. Not the same thing as the journey to get there. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
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