Hello one and all, hope you are suitably oiled...err...relaxed during this holiday period and celebrated Newton's birthday with suitable gusto.<div><br></div><div>Having run out of books and managing to lose track of my Humble Bundle 7 passcode (I have the receipt, I'll sort it later) I decided to try and do something constructive. Deutsch lernen would probably be a good idea, but that didn't seem geeky enough; so command line it was.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've come across three links that seemed to fit the bill, the cover the basics (and I do mean *basics*, probably too basic for many on here) but you never know.</div><div><br></div><div>Bootstrap: <a href="http://learncodethehardway.org/cli/book/cli-crash-course.html">http://learncodethehardway.org/cli/book/cli-crash-course.html</a></div>
<div>Learn Linux the Hard Way: <a href="http://nixsrv.com/llthw">http://nixsrv.com/llthw</a></div><div>Learn VIM whilst playing a game: <a href="http://vim-adventures.com/">http://vim-adventures.com/</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>I've evidently been some kind of kee-ray-zay masochist because I've been using vi (or think I have, I've certainly been typing "vi"). And the odd "echo foo > bar". I quite like the way the llthw site has integrated the Javascript GNU/Linux implementation so even if you are on a non-optimal OS you can get by (OS X is probably close enough for most things).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyhoo, are there any other interesting teach-yourself sites like those? Specifically ones of this exercise-based nature, rather than dry man pages. And no, installing Arch (or Gentoo) doesn't count. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Not sure if I'll be there on the 2nd for the first meet (can't recall when the flight gets in).</div><div><br></div><div>A happy New Year to you all,</div><div><br></div><div>J.</div>