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0 pointsjccalhoun5y ago0 comments

I was telling some college students how to do something and I said, "then hit return" and I had to explain that I meant the enter key. So it might take a while to be ready for the command line.

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throwaway8943455y ago

When we were dating my wife took an introductory CS course to humor me and I remember how difficult it was for her to grasp the concept that the programs you run on the command line happen in the context of a directory and you can change that directory. In her mind a directory was exactly a picture of a folder that you can double click on, not something that you run programs inside of.

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0 pointsjccalhoun5y ago0 comments

I was telling some college students how to do something and I said, "then hit return" and I had to explain that I meant the enter key. So it might take a while to be ready for the command line.

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throwaway8943455y ago

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