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From: bakul at bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [COFF] 21st Century Equivalent to 'learn'?
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 19:39:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1B8EF430-1CC5-4E49-9E98-BD0710BAA093@bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200305010021.GA23129@minnie.tuhs.org>

On Mar 4, 2020, at 5:00 PM, Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 01:49:25PM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
>> Hi all, I'm looking for an interactive tool to help students learn the
>> Unix/Linux command line. I still remember the "learn" tool. Is there an
>> equivalent for current systems?
>> Thanks in advance for any tips/pointers.
> 
> I've made a start with a new version of a "learn"ing tool. It uses tmux
> to have a pane of instructions and a pane where the user enters commands.
> Link to the repo is: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/tlearn/blob/master/tlearn
> 
> This is all protoyping at present. I'd love any ideas & suggestions.

I am tempted to suggest something like a Jupyter notebook, sort
of a manpage where examples can be modified or run interactively.
That is, even the learning instructions can become manpages that
can be referenced later even. May be some of that can become new
intro!


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-03-06  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-04  3:49 wkt
2020-03-04  6:23 ` spedraja
2020-03-04  6:55   ` thomas.paulsen
2020-03-04  9:53   ` wkt
2020-03-04 19:31 ` dave
2020-03-05  1:00 ` wkt
2020-03-05 12:43   ` jpl.jpl
2020-03-05 21:23     ` arrigo
2020-03-06  3:14       ` grog
2020-03-06  9:10     ` akosela
2020-03-07 21:50       ` dave
2020-03-07 22:05         ` clemc
2020-03-07 23:02           ` dfawcus+lists-coff
2020-03-08  0:02             ` clemc
2020-03-06  3:39   ` bakul [this message]
2020-03-12 20:53 ` rtomek
2020-03-08  3:39 rudi.j.blom

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