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Learn the Command Line
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Re: Learn the Command Line
#52I love using the command line on my Mac. I had to learn it when I decided to learn Rails. You really do feel like you have more power and control during development. Now I didn't use Codecademy, but I did learn from reading tutorials and watching a Lynda series taught by Kevin Skoglund. If you're in the process of learning the command line, definitely give it a whirl.
Re: Learn the Command Line
#53Lately I've been butting heads with some seriously anti-command line people. I'm not sure if this is a growing sentiment, or I'm just advocating CLI usage more as time goes on. Anyway, glad to see this. I'll be sure to recommend it to whomever I'm preaching.
I'm actually shocked to see such a massive number of coders on HN (a skill that still somewhat eludes me) can't use the command line, which I consider a Step #0 type prerequisite.
It just hadn't even occurred to me that this might be a possibility. I'm not even sure how folks get started in the hobby/skill without the CLI background.
I'd be interested in hearing more about the skills progression of these folks, and how they got to the expertise they have today.
Re: Learn the Command Line
#54If you're interested in more, I recently wrote a short book about learning Bash scripting: https://gumroad.com/l/datascience In the book, I use "adventures" to demonstrate Bash concepts, where I guide the reader through using the command line to answer questions such as: What's the average tip of a NYC cab driver? Is there a correlation between a country's GDP and life expectancy? etc
Purchased... lemme check it out...
Re: Learn the Command Line
#55Lately I've been butting heads with some seriously anti-command line people. I'm not sure if this is a growing sentiment, or I'm just advocating CLI usage more as time goes on. Anyway, glad to see this. I'll be sure to recommend it to whomever I'm preaching.
I'm actually shocked to see such a massive number of coders on HN (a skill that still somewhat eludes me) can't use the command line, which I consider a Step #0 type prerequisite. It just hadn't even occurred to me that this might be a possibility. I'm not even sure how folks get started in the hobby/skill without the CLI background. I'd be interested in hearing more about the skills progression of these folks, and h…
The classic Mac OS did not even have a command line interface, so people who began their programming careers in the Apple world between 1984 and 2001-2002 would only have had reason to learn how to use one out of curiosity, or if they happened to be doing cross-platform work with a Unix system. I had a wee bit of Apple II experience prior to the Macintosh, and I suppose you could call the various BBS interfaces I used a form of "command line", but for the most part I never touched a command line as we know it today until the late '90s when I started messing around with Linux and with shell accounts on the Internet.
While I've never been part of the Windows world myself, it has always seemed to me that the DOS command line plays a much smaller role there than the shell does in the Unix world. From '97 or so onward it has always been possible to buy a copy of Visual Studio and use it to build software without ever touching a command line, and I'm sure a great many people have done so.
Re: Learn the Command Line
#56They should say, right on the landing page, what command line. This is revealed in grayed out text under a login/signup dialog when you click on Start.
Windows?
Re: Learn the Command Line
#57If you're interested in more, I recently wrote a short book about learning Bash scripting: https://gumroad.com/l/datascience In the book, I use "adventures" to demonstrate Bash concepts, where I guide the reader through using the command line to answer questions such as: What's the average tip of a NYC cab driver? Is there a correlation between a country's GDP and life expectancy? etc
Purchased... lemme check it out...
Thanks, let me know what you think!
Re: Learn the Command Line
#58Or, learn the Bourne shell (which is on every UNIX) with this:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sh.html
Even better, it doesn't require registration and passing a CAPTCHA Turing test.
Re: Learn the Command Line
#59Great, now the missing link is SQL. Why are none of the online code schools teaching such an essential skill required for web development?
Re: Learn the Command Line
#60Lately I've been butting heads with some seriously anti-command line people. I'm not sure if this is a growing sentiment, or I'm just advocating CLI usage more as time goes on. Anyway, glad to see this. I'll be sure to recommend it to whomever I'm preaching.
I don't advocate anymore, unless there's some slight interest to begin with. I'm that weird old guy whose terminal is always running.