[Cialug] Tasks for learning shell scripting

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:06 AM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:
> On 09/28/2010 09:45 PM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>> What are some beginning to early intermediate tasks that are good for
>> becoming proficient with shell scripting? If you were making a
>> curriculum to teach scripting and you didn't want to be boring, what
>> would you do?
>>
>
> I taught BASH scripting last term, and used projecteuler.net as the framework to
> solve problems in bash.
>
> I'd highly recommend projecteuler.net as a way to introduce using *any* language
> (in this case, bash) to solve problems.
>
> Bash isn't the best language to use for solving all problems in Project Euler,
> but that's not the point...Trying to solve the problems in the context of the
> tool that you're using is a great way to learn what the language can do as well
> as the limitations of the language.

Fascinating website, thanks a lot for the link. I will make use of
this one way or another.


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