Workshop «Text Only»
Saturday 27 November 2010
12:00 – 17:00
Give – what it is worth
Open to all «fringe characters» (women, men, activists)
AT: Wolfart Projectspaces
Wolphaertstraat 25 b/c
3082 BK Rotterdam
The «Text Only» workshop will introduce participants to interacting with the computer operating
system from a command line interface. In Windows terminology one would run a DOS «box», while in
Linux and Mac OS X the terminal window gives access to a prompt from which to send commands to the
computer. The more familiar one gets in this text only environment the more you can do with your
computer :)!
The «Computer hardware crash course» is a good way of getting to know what a computer is. But now
you want to Do something with it. The idea for a «next level» workshop has been around for a while
and is finally going to be put into practice. How do you interface with the computer from a prompt,
command line, shell, terminal or virtual console? For us the workshop is ready to be tested and
tweaked, but we need feedabck. In other words the purpose of this afternoon is not only to present
it but also to improve it!
The first part (+/- 2 hours) will include:
* what is «the prompt»?
* traversing the computer from the command line interface,
* finding your way around (manual pages, help, grep …),
* a vocabulary (examples of commands),
* the grammar (stringing commands together),
* compare and contrast commands and terminal landscape in the different operating systems: Linux,
Windows, Mac OS X,
The second part (+/- 2 hours) will include:
* discuss the concept of computer literacy (GUI vs CLI, clicking vs writing)
* improve the workshop (flow, slide presentation, practical exercises, and the script for
facilitators)
Please email info
genderchangers [ punto ] org (info[at]genderchangers[dot]org) with your questions, suggestions and if you would like to
participate.
See you there,
Donna, Maria, Sabrina, Audrey