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Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sat Oct 20 00:25:02 UTC 2007
Alan M. Evans wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 13:55 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>> heh. indeed. when i'm teaching intro linux (and, yes, as frightening
>>> as it sounds, i actually train people in the use of linux), i'm
>>> typically *very* careful about my terminology:
>>>
>>> / *the* root directory
>>> /root *root's* home directory
>>> /home *the* home directory, as opposed to ...
>>> /home/fred *fred's* home directory
>>>
>>> distinguishing between these early saves all sorts of grief down the
>>> road.
>>>
>>>
>> God help his students :-)
>>
>
> Why? Because he defines terms early and uses those terms consistently
> from then on? Yeah, his students are in big trouble.
>
> Perhaps you perhaps prefer instructors that poorly define and misuse
> terminology? Wait! Let me see those docs of yours again...
>
>
>
Back a few years ago I did teach classes at Stanford U and NMSU
later. I did my homework and was ahead of all my students. I kind of
wonder about rday since he has told me there is only one root. Made a
BFD of it too.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
#450462 http://counter.li.org.
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