Re: Bash Session
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>---- Original Message ----
>From: kurianmthayil@gmail.com
>To: soules@gmail.com
>Subject: Re: Bash Session
>Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 07:59:11 +0530
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>>Hi Jeff,
>>
>>You are correct. Our state has implemented GNU/Linux in schools and
>they use
>>a customized Debian GNU/Linux for that. There must be some
>method/way which
>>actually shows them the power of CLI and BASH, and interesting for
>them.
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>>Regards,
>>
>>Kurian Thayil.
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>>On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jeff Soules <soules@gmail.com>
>wrote:
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>>> I'd suggest any tasks that they frequently do by hand. What do
>school
>>> teachers in your community use their Linux machines for? Any way
>to
>>> speed that up? Parsing text files perhaps, doing file conversions
>or
>>> concatenating documents they might have to deal with (pdfs?) or
>>> something like that?
>>>
>>> Typically your audience will be most interested if they can see
>the
>>> relevance to their lives of your material.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Kurian Thayil
><kurianmthayil@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi All,
>>> >
>>> > Planning to give a small demo on BASH scripting in a LUG
>community.
>>> Audience
>>> > will be school teachers and basic home users and thus are
>beginners.
>>> > Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that
>will make
>>> > them more interesting and love command line. Need some
>suggestions.
>>> >
>>> > Its always difficult to think simple and easy. :-) So I've quite
>confused
>>> > here on how and what to present. Any help?????
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> >
>>> > Kurian Thayil.
>>> >
>>>
How about a script that accepts homework (e.g. essays) from students,
time stamps each one, places each in a directory for later review by
the teacher, and sends an email back to the student confirming the
submission (similar to turnin but not so complex)
Larry
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