[COFF] 21st Century Equivalent to 'learn'?

Bakul Shah bakul at bitblocks.com
Fri Mar 6 13:39:41 AEST 2020


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!


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