User:Michael Murtaugh/Notes

• Performing a script

• The concept of a "PATH"
  • Creating a "bin" folder, ensuring it's in the path.
  • Creating a "pythonlib" folder and adding it to the PYTHONPATH

Claiming the terminal

• gtypist:
  • Typing
  • GNU
  • Fortune
  • .bashrc

(though... ktouch is better)

Open .bash_aliases in your HOME directory, and add:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$HOME/pythonlib

• argparse (+ Inkscape)
• http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonEffectTutorial
• http://diveintohtml5.org/past.html
• http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html
• Rudimentary understanding of BASH scripts
• Make a PDF of a man page
• midge/midi output

Bash

what is a script?

what is a variable?

what is a loop?

sources of (live) information:

• date
• traceroute