warner (11/30/82)
Is this just too boring or can't any one do it?
I'm doing a study of the way new users perceive the UNIX working
environment. I've found a lot of confusion and misconceptions so far. In
my interviews with new users I first ask them various questions about
how they perceive the UNIX environment and then end up describing it to
them. Some usual responses to my description are;
"I read that in the documentation but didn't understand it till now."
"Now I get it."
"So that's what that meant."
It seems to me to be important to give new users a brief, accurate,
functional description of the UNIX environment as a foundation for future
accretion.
Post to followup or mail me.
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In 200 words or less answer the following proposition (supposition);
If I was a new user that you were introducing to UNIX
describe the relationship between me and the C-shell.
PARAMETERS:
You may assume that I had a fair amount of previous computer
experience. Make the description so as to give me a functional model
of the C-shell with which I could continue learning UNIX and C-shell
on my own. Try to anticipate the first level of questions I might have.
I'll post the best five replies in net.followup unless the
sender indicates otherwise.
Ken Warner
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