Hi Jeff, You are correct. Our state has implemented GNU/Linux in schools and they use a customized Debian GNU/Linux for that. There must be some method/way which actually shows them the power of CLI and BASH, and interesting for them.
Regards, Kurian Thayil. On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Jeff Soules <sou...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd suggest any tasks that they frequently do by hand. What do school > teachers in your community use their Linux machines for? Any way to > speed that up? Parsing text files perhaps, doing file conversions or > concatenating documents they might have to deal with (pdfs?) or > something like that? > > Typically your audience will be most interested if they can see the > relevance to their lives of your material. > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Kurian Thayil <kurianmtha...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Planning to give a small demo on BASH scripting in a LUG community. > Audience > > will be school teachers and basic home users and thus are beginners. > > Thinking on how to present simple and some example scripts that will make > > them more interesting and love command line. Need some suggestions. > > > > Its always difficult to think simple and easy. :-) So I've quite confused > > here on how and what to present. Any help????? > > > > Regards, > > > > Kurian Thayil. > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > >