On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Marshall Hampton <hampto...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One can do worse than "Unix for Dummies".
Is it available for free online? For my purposes, that is a bare minimum requirement. -- William > I can't really review it > effectively, since I knew most of what's in it before getting it, but > it seems pretty good for a total newbie. What was very helpful to me > after I learned some basics was O'Reilly's Unix Power Tools, but that > might be overwhelming to people at first. > > I would also be interested in recommendations since I sometimes have > the same problem with students interested in bioinformatics. > > -Marshall > > On Sep 26, 2:12 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Are there any amazingly good freely available introductions to basic >> command line UNIX that people recommend. I've noticed that many >> people (often young students raised on Windows) who really want to >> work on Sage don't know anything about basic command line UNIX, which >> increases the learning curve. >> >> William >> >> -- >> William Stein >> Associate Professor of Mathematics >> University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org > > > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
