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Nano is what I teach my kids (5 and 8) to code on the terminal in. It's fantastic!
by zeroxfe 8y ago
Nano is what I teach my kids (5 and 8) to code on the terminal in. It's fantastic!
- O_H_E 8y agoOh man, that's some hardcore parenting. Big respect. Would be nice if you could share you journey with your kids after a couple of years
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- zeroxfe 8y agoThanks :) Let's see how far I (they) get!
- jason_slack 8y agoThanks for mentioning this. I also started teaching my 3 kids using a terminal and nano instead of a gui editor. Consequently they are 15, 17, 20 and all are very comfortable in a terminal environment. It feels amazing that my 17 year old daughter uses sed, awk, grep, cat, nano, etc instead of GUI apps.
- another-cuppa 8y agoNice. I think the best way to learn how to use programming tools is to actually see the need for them yourself. Starting with a basic text editor, no make, no debugger etc. is great.
- IshKebab 8y agoWhy though? Micro is a much better editor if you have to use a terminal and VSCode is much much better if you don't. Seems odd to teach old needlessly difficult software just because you had to learn it.
- Koshkin 8y agoWith the widespread availability of raster graphics, I wonder how often people actually have to use a character-cell terminal for editing text. (I appreciate the coolness factor.)
- IshKebab 8y agoI agree but it is useful when editing files over SSH. Remote X and VNC are rather a pain to set up and really not that good.
- piano 8y agoI use a terminal text editor when I'm doing something in the terminal, need to do a quick edit and don't want to have to switch away from the terminal into a GUI editor. For me that's typically commit messages and not-too-complex config files. In such cases using a terminal editor is simply more convenient...
- zeroxfe 8y agoReally not interested in getting into editor wars here. Sorry. :-/