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@DHRI-Curriculum Session on the command line, a means of interacting with your computer programmatically through text.
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Open kallewesterling opened 5 years ago

kallewesterling commented 5 years ago

I would say the command line requires a greater visual grasp of the relationship between directories that most of us are used to using. I suppose that is what come of the Graphic User Interface we are know from windows applications. Point-and-click is great for navigating quickly, but it doesn't leave you with much real understanding of what the program is doing behind the scenes. Which is reason enough to explore the command line.

Perhaps we should start by exploring the GUI way of navigating your hard drive/folder structure and then move into the command line.

kallewesterling commented 5 years ago

Another idea is to drag and drop a folder or a file into the terminal to see how the path is converted from the GUI to the text on the command line.