We need a command line interactive tutorial

[Vox754]

Yo, programmers of the world.

Take a look at this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=351854

I'm sure it will take you like 1 hour to implement something like this.

[Greykrrr]

Yo, programmers of the world.

Take a look at this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=351854

I'm sure it will take you like 1 hour to implement something like this.

Well sure but I don't exactly see to what end? Isn't the best way to do this to download something like the guide foud at linuxcommand.org, in pdf or html and read through that? Alternatively boil it down to a five minute tutorial text that just explains the basics like cd, ls, mkdir and the likes.

Only difference as far as i can tell is that the user doesn't have the oppertunity to 'skip bits' in a guided interactive tutorial.

[lnostdal]

i see someone mentioned a programming tutorial for ubunt in the thread you link to .. i've added a start of something (not sure what yet) here:

http://nostdal.org/~lars/writings/

..i'm thinking next up is gdb/ddd (debugging), then gtk+ (gui), then glade/libglade (rad-gui) .. then switch from lowlevel C and show some cool highlevel stuff in Lisp :)

hm, about an interactive command line tutorial .. it would be easy and quite fun to write a "simulation" that guided the user .. but is there really any need for this? i mean - i don't have any links to resources about this at hand because i don't need anything else besides what's already in the manpages, but there must be tonnes of info about how for instance the linux directory layout works and how ls,mv,cp,etc works?

[23meg]

Availability of information isn't the point; it's the way it's presented that matters. People who are new to using the shell could benefit from a step by step walkthrough that can possibly be integrated into the OS more than a complete command reference.

[Vox754]

Availability of information isn't the point; it's the way it's presented that matters.

Totally agree. THAT is the point.

[lnostdal]

..but, i'm being boring here lol - is there any newbies that have had problems with for instance: http://linuxcommand.org/? could anyone confirm this? because, it seems like a good resource at first sight

(at the bottom the author states that he allows copying of the content)

[pmasiar]

Instead of plain command line, i use mc - midnight commander. MC is character based (not GUI), but in 20 years of usage it got all possible functionality you may imagine, and is really intuitive. Try it!

PS. 20 years - started as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander and has quite a lot of clones. MC is one of them.

[lnostdal]

I remember Norton Commander under MSDOS. I use Midnight Commander once in a while now; it is quite good. :) A great feature is that you can toggle visibility of MC by pressing ctrl-o. This enables you to do some work "full screen" in the shell when you need this.