This blog post is about the assignment for week 2 for class 672. The blog assignment asked us each to comment on how I felt about the teaching videos and tutorials.

After completing the installation of Ubuntu successfully and completed the rest of the assignments for class I looked back to see what worked best for me. Accessing the remote desktop went smoothly for me though I ultimately watched Professor Fulton's youtube lessons several times. The Arthur Griffith lectures likewise were useful as the visuals clarified a great deal of the command line structure and the logic behind it. In fact I shudder to think of trying to learn these concepts without these visual aids. Because I took extensive notes on the Griffith lecture and had to pause frequently, the ten lectures took a significantly longer time than the estimated 1 hour. The six lessons in Look Around the File gave a overview of important topics in the basic structure of organization. I particularly had an a-ha! moment with the codes for granting permissions. Areas I will need to go over again are the grep. The Intro to Unix Command Line structure gave a useful (and brief) description of key concepts. The tutorials from LinuxCommand proved the most difficult to follow. Most of the commands and concepts covered by Arthur Griffith made sense to me and practicing the LOM examples solidified the ideas. Areas I had difficulty with were over the I/O redirect commands and/or using pipes and the kill command. Likewise job control needs more work. I hope to go over the tutorials again next week.

I also have to say that I don't get why techguys do things like take the e our of user. I refuse to believe that skipping one key stroke is a truly valuable time saver.