Oh, no, sorry - somehow I skipped over the "freely available" part your request. My apologies. -Marshall
On Sep 26, 6:15 pm, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Washingtonhttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
