Hmmm, I'm not sure whether you ought to classify budding computer scientists
as just "users". I would hope in their 1st year they have picked up a little
on the fundamental components of an computer including the operating system.
I think if you are trying to effectively give them a tutorial on how to do
their programming assignments, I would make it very task oriented. Basically
walk through the whole process of logging on, setting up directory space,
editing files, running compilers or what have you. You may want to
show/compare doing things through a text shell as well the GUI. (If it were
me running the tutes I'd make sure the first few weeks was just dealing with
a text-mode shell anyhow. That's how us old guys had to do it! I don't think
there is anything wrong with "verb noun adverb" model of getting people to
understand user interface interaction)
A standard cheat sheet with the normal shell commands would probably help.
While not discouraging them to explore other ways of doing things, you need
to make sure they know how to get back to base camp and like you said how to
use man pages and --help
Martin
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Rennie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 27 February 2001 2:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [SLUG] Hmmm ... I asked the wrong Question ...
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> Sorry i think i asked a slightly wrong question but thanks for the
> input. I will hopefully use it at the end (if i have time).
>
> These are windows users, getting ready for second or third
> year computer
> science, who often think unix is scary and hard to use (fools ;)
>
> So I've been asked to do a simply how to get around as a user
> and not get
> lost/bug people with better things to do, intro.
>
> I was planning to cover the basic commands, the myteries of chmod,
> avilable editors, and maybe a little bit of X. Also the
> obvious, Unix way
> stuff, and why things are done the way they are. Also xman :)
>
> Have i missed anything ?
>
> Jason
>
>
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