Command Line for Kids
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Work in Progress
This is my syllabus for the 2012 Free Geek Summer Camp Command Line class.
- Class Teaching Goals
- have fun, promote interest
- run a program
- introduce options and arguments using cowsay
- introduce the command prompt
- introduce man pages
- introduce file system
- Tab completion?
- navigation and keyboard skills
- Main concepts
- command line provides more direct access to the functions of your computer
- using the command line gives you total access: Use it wisely!
- Questions to pose to the class
- Why use the command line?
- Have you ever used the command line before? What happened?
- Do we use command line in Windows? What is different about Linux command line?
- Exercise
$ sudo apt-get install cowsay $ cowsay
Why does nothing happen? This program needs something else from us to run. Let's check the manual.
$man cowsay
It looks like we need the cow to say something. Hit the q key to exit the man page.
So it looks like we have some different modes. There is -b for Borg mode -d for Dead mode -g for Greedy mode and so on.
- Key words
- command line
- graphical user interface
- man page
- Fun things
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