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What changes should we make for our 5.4 release? #194
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These can each spawn more specific issues to be worked on:
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Will tag other already open issues that we'd like to complete w/ the milestone |
Issues I would really like to see addressed are:
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Also, after train the trainers today, a "solution" page for the exercises, with solutions and - more importantly - what concept the question is trying to test and what misconceptions are attached to the wrong answers. |
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Slightly off topic(?), but I'd like to second Raniere's most recent message. Pretty much the first thing I get students to do after showing them export PS1='\u@\h:\w$ ' and then, if they want it to be permanent, echo "export PS1='\u@\h:\w$ '" >> ~/.bashrc (FYI this means your prompt is I haven't actually taught the shell lesson; this is based on my experience with an introductory programming course at my university: students are fine navigating folders, but forget where they are, and thus end up losing track of files in directory structures of the form
You see the 'problem'... Modifying the PS1 value is somewhat esoteric, but useful. I believe it would be worth adding a little bit about having the current directory in your prompt to the material. |
Going through the tutorial, I find that there is a problem with the final loop that Nelle runs, i.e. for datafile in *[AB].txt; do echo $datafile; bash goostats $datafile stats-$datafile; done The problem is that if you run the loop twice, it will actually take "stats-$datafile" as the input for the second run, as well as the original files. A slightly more complex, but correct loop, would be |
I also find that it would be useful to have a directory with the exercises at the end of the lessons. Instead of having "Suppose that ls initially displays:" ... and having people who need to think about what the answer might be, they can actually try it for themselves. |
@ChristinaLK, @gdevenyi and @gvwilson What do you think of collecting Nelle’s examples as a capstone exercise? I like the Nelle's text but I never taught it due time limitation. |
Please use this issue for discussion of changes we should make by mid-August 2015.
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